10 Mysterious Discoveries Found Frozen In Ice

From a dino popsicle to ice mummies found wrapped in bark plus a new discovery of life beneath the Antarctic ice shelf Here are ten amazing things recently found frozen in ice Subscribe For New Videos a http 3A 2F 2Fgoo gl 2FUIzLeB a 10 Iron Age Horse In the frozen wasteland of Norway a melting glacier has revealed an exceptional specimen an Iron Age horse that dates back to the days of the Vikings According to Lars Pilo the head of snow archaeology for the Oppland Council the new horse specimen shows that the old Vikings were using horses to transport goods through the snowy mountains 9 The Bark-Wrapped Mummies The remains of an amazing medieval mummy bundled tightly in a cocoon of birch bark and buried in a pit filled with ice and copper was just found yet again in the melting permafrost of Siberia near to the site of an old village that used to belong to a mysterious and widely undocumented arctic civilization 8 The Frozen Dragon of the North In Canada a new type of dragon has been discovered frozen in the ice and it s about as big as a small aircraft Of course this isn t a dragon in the real sense It s only a flying reptile that lived during the Cretaceous period about 76 million years ago It was found buried deep in the ice and scientists have now learned that it had a massive wingspan of 33 feet 10m 7 Mammoth DNA In breaking archaeological news scientists have just sequenced the oldest DNA in the known world They used material dating back from the Middle Pleistocene sub-epoch which they obtained from the remains of an ancient mammoth found buried in the Siberian permafrost This new DNA sequence has proved once and for all that DNA is able to survive for over 1 million years while frozen in ice 6 Relics from the Ice Age Between the years 536 and 660 the earth was trapped inside of a miniature ice age with freezing cold temperatures all throughout the Northern Hemisphere These unbearable years became known as The Terrible Winter in which no true summer ever came Now archaeological evidence has surfaced from this very period revealing how those in Norway survived the century of bone-chilling cold and bleak harvests 5 Cave Lion Cubs A pair of extinct cave lions have just been found in the permafrost in Siberia and they have been described as the best-preserved cave lions ever seen according to the Academy of Sciences of Yakutia The cubs were found in the Sakha Republic the coldest and vastest region of Russia where most of the land is covered in ice thousands of years old 4 An Ancient Lunchbox One of the oldest and most spectacular artifacts was just found in the freezing ice of Switzerland s Lotschenpass nearly 9000 feet above sea level The discovery was revealed in the scientific paper Scientific Reports It was an old circular box only a few inches wide crafted from willow and pine and lashed together with twigs 3 Dinosaur Popsicle In the frigid and frozen mountains of Antarctica researchers have discovered a dinosaur popsicle Paleontologists had to literally camp on the ice for over 60 days to get the dino popsicle out from the ice and they had to get down again with their specimen by using a helicopter 2 Martian Minerals Early in 2021 researchers from the University of Milan found an insane Martian mineral hidden in the Antarctic ice It all started when scientists took an ice core sample with the intention of learning more about Earth s truly ancient past and maybe even finding evidence of the oldest ice on Earth 1 Life Beneath the Antarctic Ice Shelf We re going back to Antarctica for our last frozen discovery but this one pertains to a new and strange lifeform just discovered by scientists after drilling 3000 feet 900m into the ice They did this at the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf over 100 miles 160km from the nearest ocean As you can imagine not many creatures have been found in such an inhospitable environment literally thousands of feet beneath the surface of the ice in some of the coldest and remotest waters on ice mysteriousdiscoveries amazingdiscoveries frozeninice

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