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A paper by two Russian scientists in Global Health Action, a journal published by Umeå University in Sweden, had warned of the risk that the old burial grounds of cattle which had died to anthrax in the early last century may thaw and lead to the re-emergence of the viable pathogen.
Sergey Zimov, born 18 July 1955, [2] is a Russian scientist who resides in Cherskii, Sakha Republic, Russia. He studied and received his degree in geophysics from Far East State University, located in Vladivostok, Russia. [3] Zimov founded the Northeast Science Station near Cherskii in 1977. [4]
Scientists used radiocarbon dating to study ancient worms. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
The bdelloid rotifer is awake - and we're going to need to buy some more birthday candles. For the past 24,000 years, the multicellular microorganism had been snoozing in Siberian permafrost ...
A team of scientists from Russia, Hungary and the United States recovered frozen Silene stenophylla seeds and remains from the Pleistocene in 2007, while investigating about 70 ancient ground squirrel (genera Urocitellus and Geomys ssp) hibernation burrows or caches, hidden in permanently frozen loess-ice deposits [1] [2] located at Duvanny Yar ...
The experiment was repeated with mice, fish, and rats, but it always failed to produce the same results. The perceived explanation was that rather than memory being transferred to the other animals, it was the hormones in the ingested ground animals that changed the behavior. [ 38 ]
In Russia's far northeastern Yakutia region, local scientists are performing an autopsy on a wolf frozen in permafrost for around 44,000 years, a find they said was the first of its kind ...
When their population becomes high, the worms migrate toward the surface of the water for access to higher concentrations of oxygen. [ citation needed ] Although detritus worms may not cause harm to aquarium fish, their appearance is an indication of poor water quality mainly due to overfeeding and lack of good water sanitation.