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The World's Coldest Marathon is Run at -53C in Yakutia, Siberia
In frigid Yakutia, Siberia, sixty five runners from around the world ran in a marathon that started at Oymyakon, the coldest village on Earth. The temperature during the contest was -53 °C or -63 °F, and the runners ran on snow-covered tracts, thus earning the contest the moniker of the world’s coldest marathon.Winning the full marathon for the second time, a local runner named Vasily Lukin finished first in 3 hours 22 minutes as he crossed the finish line at Tomtor. Marina Sedalischeva was the best among the women, with 42 kilometres in 4 hours 9 minutes. Meanwhile, the winners of the half-marathon were Vasily Spiridonov (1 hour 36 minutes) and Ulyana Barashkova (2 hour 5 minutes).All winners got cash prizes starting from 100,000 roubles ($1,288; £950). Participants above 70 years won a special prize.This year's marathon was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Yakutia's autonomy within the former Soviet Union.Image: Semen Sivtsev#marathon #Siberia #worldrecord #running
Liquid Blood Found in the Heart of a Prehistoric 42,000-Year-Old Foal Mummy Preserved in Siberian Permafrost
This is the oldest blood in the world, ever!A prehistoric foal mummy was discovered in Siberia. The animal, estimated to be around 42,000 years old, had beautifully preserved internal organs and liquid blood thanks to its favorable burial conditions and the Siberian permafrost. According to Semyon Grigoryev, head of the Mammoth Museum in Yakutsk, the liquid blood was extracted from the animal’s heart vessels. The foal’s excellent condition makes it the best-preserved Ice Age animal ever found in the world.Scientists are now looking forward to cloning the animal to revive its species, the Lenskaya breed, which went extinct a long time ago. “Hopefully, the world will soon meet the clone of the ancient foal who lived 42,000 years ago.” Mickhil Yakovlev, editor of the North-Eastern Federal University’s media said to the press. Image credit: North-Eastern Federal University#paleontology #Lenskaya #foal #mummy #permafrost #siberia #cloning #animals
Frozen 28,000-Year-Old Cave Lion Cub in the Permafrost of the Siberian Arctic was So Well Preserved that it Looked like it was Sleeping
Mammoth tusk hunters digging in the permafrost of the Siberian Arctic made an astonishing discovery of two frozen cave lion cubs from the Ice Age. One was so well preserved that it looked like it was simply sleeping.
Image Competition Winners Show the Diversity of Ecological Science
The image above by Kristen Brown shows a school of jackfish swimming in a spiral at the Great Barrier Reef. It was the overall winner in the 2021 photo competition from the scientific journal BMC Ecology and Evolution. The picture also won in the category Conservation Biology. The competition attracted entries from researchers all around the world eager to use their creativity to highlight their work and capture the diversity of the planet's flora and fauna. BMC Ecology and Evolution invited anyone affiliated with a research institution to submit to one of the following six categories: ‘Conservation Biology', 'Evolutionary Developmental Biology and Biodiversity', 'Behavioural Ecology', 'Human Evolution and Ecology', ‘Population Ecology' and 'Ecological Developmental Biology'.Our Senior Editorial Board Members lent their expertise to judge the entrants to the competition, selecting the overall winner, runner up and best image from each category. The board members considered the scientific story behind the photos submitted in addition to their artistic judgement (Fig. 1).#jackfish #fish #biology #photography #photocompetition
Mosquitonado: A Horrifying Tornado of Millions of Swarming Mosquitoes
Forget firenado! The new horror is the mosquitonado, a tornado of millions of mosquitoes that’s happening in the Kamchatka Peninsula in the far-eastern regions of Russia.In a viral video clip, swarms of millions of mosquitoes amass and swirl in giant pillars that look like tornadoes.Video clip: Russia No Context/Twitter#mosquito #tornado #mosquitonado #insect #KamchatkaPeninsula #Russia #Siberia
Russian Scientist Revived 24,000-Year-Old Zombie Worm Frozen in Arctic Permafrost
Obviously having never seen any sci-fi monster movies, Russian scientists have revived bdelloid rotifers or microscopic wheel animals that have been frozen for 24,000 years in the Siberian permafrost.Russian scientists at the Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science in Pushchino, Russia, dug down to 11.5 feet (3.5 m) below the surface in Siberia's Alazeya River to a layer of soil that has been frozen since the Pleistocene epoch.There, they found rotifers in a cryptobiotic state. Then, the scientists simply put the organism in a Petri dish filled with suitable medium and watched as the microorganism recovered from their dormancy, started moving and multiplied by creating clones of themselves."Organisms isolated alive from permafrost potentially represent the best models for cryobiology research and could provide valuable clues about the mechanisms that allow those organisms to survive," said lead researcher Stas Malavin to LiveScience. "Those mechanisms could then be tested in cryopreservation experiments with human cells, tissues and organs."#Rotifer #Siberia #permafrost #cryptobiosis
Heat Wave in the Arctic Circle: Ground Temp in Siberia Reaches Over 100° F
"Hot" and "Arctic Circle" are two words that don't usually go together, but recently, the surface temperature there reaches into the triple digits.According to Europe's Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space (DG DEFIS), the ground temperature for Saskylakh, Russia, which is well inside the Arctic Circle, reached 39°C or 102°F on June 20, 2021.The image above was taken by Sentinel-3 satellites, an Earth observatory satellite series by the European Space Agency's Copernicus Programme.#heatwave #Siberia #ArcticCircle #ClimateChange #globalwarming #CopernicusEU
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