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![a huge frozen sinkkhole in an arid landscape in Siberia](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/KxHumd3fdDaNwfBYWgAdHi-320-80.jpg)
Siberia's 'gateway to the underworld' megaslump is revealing 650,000 year-old secrets from its permafrost
By Stephanie Pappas published
The permafrost inside the Batagay crater is the second-oldest ever found on Earth and scientists are using it to reconstruct the planet's ancient climate.
![Arctic ice photographed in 2005.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/umjDacyRQwtZabyMQhDjmQ-320-80.jpeg)
Dramatic Arctic Ice Melt Blows Away Previous Record
By Wynne Parry last updated
A summer of record melt for the icy cap on top of the world ends with a new record.
![Overhead photo of Qeqertaq Avannarleq, a Ghost Island which turned out to be a dirty iceberg.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/rYRoed4Kv7SF92V8A5fnBE-320-80.jpg)
Arctic 'ghost island' that vanished may have actually been a dirty iceberg
By Kevin Hamilton published
The world’s 'northernmost island' isn’t the first to be erased from the map.
![The Milne Fiord epishelf lake in Neige Bay, Canada.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/AgwGLadypP5SUCnycDFHm3-320-80.jpg)
Giant viruses are infecting algae in a floating lake in the Arctic
By Patrick Pester published
Giant viruses infect tiny algae in a rare epishelf lake in the Arctic Ocean that's one of the last of its kind.
![Image from bathymetry surveys](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/pnzb6Lw4gjCg3GesRM5s9A-320-80.jpg)
Sinkholes as big as a skyscraper and as wide as a city street open up in the Arctic seafloor
By Jeanna Bryner published
Giant "sinkholes" — one of which could devour an entire city block holding six-story buildings — are appearing along the Arctic seafloor.
![The excavations of the mammoth skeleton on Kotelny Island this summer show it was deliberately butchered by Stone Age humans around 26,000 years ago.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/DDznfC3QLtBM9jUuyTLMfD-320-80.jpg)
Russian expedition finds evidence of northernmost Stone Age hunters above the Arctic Circle
By Tom Metcalfe published
Ancient cut marks on mammoth bones unearthed on a remote island in the frozen extremes of Siberia are the northernmost evidence of Paleolithic humans ever found, according to archaeologists.
![Rotifer recovering from week-long cryptobiosis in the lab.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/dAQxJpEuLLKJSeDn2h5fE3-320-80.gif)
24,000-year-old 'zombies' revived and cloned from Arctic permafrost
By Mindy Weisberger published
Arctic ice dating to 24,000 years ago held frozen microscopic animals called rotifers. Scientists just brought them back to life.
![An example of a trail left by sponges as they crawl across the seafloor.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/sjcFGzLA6wKxz2AFBTvVzc-320-80.jpg)
Arctic sponges crawl around the seafloor and leave bizarre brown trails to prove it
By Harry Baker published
For the first time, researchers have captured images of bizarre brown trails on an Arctic ridge that appear to have been left by sponges crawling across the seafloor.
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