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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]
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. Found by ...
Scientists used radiocarbon dating to study ancient worms. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
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.
Denisova Cave (Russian: Денисова пещера, romanized: Denísova peshchéra, lit. 'the cave of Denis') is a cave in the Bashelaksky Range of the Altai Mountains in Siberia, Russia. It is widely known for having provided items of great paleoarchaeological and paleontological interest.
Researchers have uncovered fossils of giant predator worms, some of Earth’s earliest carnivorous animals that roamed the seas 518 million years ago.
This list of Russian biologists includes the famous biologists from the Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, the Russian Empire and other predecessor states of Russia. Biologists of all specialities may be listed here, including ecologists , botanists , zoologists , paleontologists , biochemists , physiologists and others.
The worms colonize the methane ice and appear to survive by gleaning bacteria, which in turn metabolize the clathrate. In 1997, Charles Fisher, professor of biology at Pennsylvania State University , discovered the worm living on mounds of methane ice at a depth of half a mile (~800 m) on the ocean floor in the Gulf of Mexico . [ 2 ]