Beneath the frozen skin of the Earth, a silent awakening is underway. As Arctic and sub-Arctic permafrost thaws, ancient ...

While the scenario and the virus were completely fictitious, scientists warn the threat of 'zombie viruses' emerging from ...

By the looks of it, you wouldn’t have said this foal had been buried more than a few weeks, it was that perfectly preserved.

‘Mammothpox’ is the name of a fictional virus that the World Health Organization (WHO) used to test how prepared 15 countries ...

In her project 'Under the Ice of the Arctic, Mercury,' French photographer Juliette Pavy reveals an alarming reality ...

Colossal’s woolly mammoth patent application, with its descriptions of modified cells and animals, represents “the current ...

which are single-cell organisms, and do not pose any harm to humans. But an outbreak of anthrax in western Siberia in 2016 was chalked up to the thawing of permafrost in the area that housed the ...

A microscopic animal, frozen in the Arctic permafrost for 24,000 years, awakened once thawed in a laboratory setting. This bdelloid rotifer, a multicellular organism barely visible to the naked eye, ...

One of our planet's fascinating wonders is permafrost, which is soil that is perpetually frozen. However, as global temperatures climb higher, that layer — and the people living above it — are in ...