Top 20 animals frozen in time
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Top 20 animals frozen in time. People were frozen in time, and so are animals. Scientists have succeeded in bringing a frozen animal back to life after 30 years! Learning about icy things is always exciting. Finding an ancient frozen […]
Top 20 animals frozen in time. People were frozen in time, and so are animals. Scientists have succeeded in bringing a frozen animal back to life after 30 years!
Learning about icy things is always exciting. Finding an ancient frozen animal preserved in ice is a sort of time travel. Here are the top 20 animals frozen in time.
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The frozen hipopotatamus
Ancient frozen fossils of hippopotamus-like creatures found on an Arctic island hint at a once-balmy climate—”rather”like Florida”—in t the polar region, an ecologist says.
This animal was frozen in the past. Fossil footprints of a pantodont, a plant-eating creature weighing about 400 kilograms, add to evidence of sequoia-type trees and crocodile-like beasts in the Arctic millions of years ago, when greenhouse gas concentrations in the air were high.
The footprints were discovered at the end of a horizontal coal mine shaft on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. The find was 5 kilometers inside a mountain and 300 meters below the surface.
Frozen fish species
Back in 2015, Kelly Preheim, a regular visitor to Lake Andes National Wildlife Refuge, witnessed the startling sight.
Kelly explains the reasoning behind the startling sight of many frozen common carp and a few other fish species in ice. The lake levels were low due to drought. The fish kill was due to depleted oxygen. When thick ice forms on a lake’s surface, it blocks out the sun and produces oxygen, thus depleting oxygen levels.
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The Frozen Fox
A man ice skating on a lake in central Sweden was shocked to find a fox frozen solid after the thin ice had apparently cracked. The grisly find was made by 26-year-old Jeffer Sandström, who was hesitant as to whether skating on a lake in Jönköping was a good idea. He didn’t hang around to find out whether the fox may have had company during its fatal winter swim.
The Frozen Elk
In 2014, this elk was found frozen in ice in the middle of a lake near Bodo in northern Norway, after the ice apparently cracked beneath it as it was trying to cross. Inger Sjøberg, 47, found the animal as she was skating across Kosmo Lakr in Valnesfjord on December 29. She said she believed the elk must have fallen through earlier in the winter before the ice hardened properly. The animal has since become quite an attraction for local children, who come out to look at the frozen carcass.
The Frozen Frog
This frozen animal in ice looks like it is sleeping. But sadly, this little frog will not jump again as it froze solid trying to cross a lake in Norway. It is thought that a sudden rise in temperatures fooled the hibernating amphibian, and it ventured out across the lake to find a girlfriend. However, as the lake froze, the frog returned to hibernation out in the open and died from the cold. Photographer Svein Nordrum, 54, discovered the creature while he was out skating on Lake Bindingsvann, just outside of Oslo.
The Frozen Donkey
After footage of a small herd of frozen donkeys in Turkey was released, a rescue team was sent out to take care of them. The unattended, scary frozen animals were found in a rural area of Sanliurfa province in southeastern Turkey, which had been experiencing some of the coldest and harshest winter temperatures in the country. When the team found the donkeys, some of them were so cold they were unable to walk and had to be carried to a truck.
The frozen coyote
Ingolf Kristiansen was on a short walk with her dog along the bay of Lovund when she stumbled upon what she had never seen before. Cold temperatures and wind that may have triggered lightning-fast freezing of the bay.
This deadly frozen animal was spotted by her; this is exactly how she found the animal—frozen stiff, sitting up, at the side of the road. The photographer explained that the area had been having temps below -30C for two weeks during the 2008 winter.
Frozen Tiger
A haul of tiger, this ancient frozen animal found in a car in Hanoi, has led to the arrest of a key wildlife trafficking suspect, Vietnamese state media said Friday, as the country tries to tackle a well-worn smuggling route from Laos.
Nguyen Huu Hue, who is believed to have smuggled animals in from neighboring Laos for years, was arrested Thursday with two other people after seven dead tigers were discovered in their vehicle at a parking lot, according to the Cong An Nhan Dan newspaper.
Yukagir Bison
It was discovered in Siberia in 2011, the mummified remains of a Steppe Bison—the ancestor to the modern bison. Discovered by a tribe in the Yana-Indigirka Lowland, the bison was remarkably intact, with its brain and other organs almost perfectly preserved. This is the most complete Steppe Bison ever to be found, despite it being well over 9000 years old.
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The Frozen Deer
This is the horrifying moment a fisherman discovers the body of a frozen deer by the roadside as temperatures hit -5C. Zachary Brown, 25, a hunting and fishing guide, discovered the frozen body in Alberta, in western Canada. The stag, which has large antlers, lies sitting upright in the snow with its eyes still open as if it were still alive.
Frozen Alligator
Air-breathing alligators don’t do anything as fancy as freezing their blood cells during the winter. So you might be wondering how they get access to oxygen when the water bodies in which they live freeze over.
Well, they’re able to survive being stuck in frozen ponds with one simple, genius trick: when ice closes in on their bodies, the alligators stick their snout through the surface. Although they remain immobile in the ice, Newsweek explained that they can still breathe normally through their noses until the temperature warms up. It’s just an absolutely amazing survival technique.
The Frozen Bird
In 2018, a well-preserved bird was discovered by local fossil ivory hunters 30 km east of the village of Belaya Gora, Yakutia, in northeastern Siberia. The bird carcass was found approximately 150 meters into an ice tunnel that had been hydraulically mined into the permafrost at a depth of roughly 7 meters below the earth’s surface.
Frozen Dinosaurs
Fossils are all we have to prove that dinosaurs ever existed. There are two types of fossils. The first are body parts like bones and teeth that we often associate with fossils today. The second are traces like teeth marks, footprints, and excreta.
Over the years, we have unearthed some really interesting fossils frozen in time. We say “frozen in time” because the fossil is usually enough to let us know what the dinosaur was doing at a certain time in its life or at the time of death. Others allowed us to know exactly how the dinosaur looked during its lifetime.
Frozen Rhinoceros
These have sometimes been suggested to be annual growth bands, in which case they show that woolly rhinos lived on occasion to over 30 years, a lifespan about similar to that of modern rhino species.
Woolly rhinos went extinct about 10,000 years ago. Some scientists believe overhunting was the cause, but the more likely culprit is climate change, which caused the disappearance of the animals’ food sources and habitat, researchers said.
Yuka Mammoth
Probably everyone knows about mammoths and how they are some of the most recently extinct mammals. And this is where the Yuka Mammoth comes in the picture—it’s lived around 39,000 years ago, which is really recent!
But the most important part is that its brain is almost completely intact, which is not the case with 99.99% of other animal fossils. This allowed scientists to study this ancient mammoth brain in detail, which in the end made them conclude that it was, in fact, very similar to the brains of today’s elephants. This is good news—because it can help us bring the mammoths back!
The Tumat Puppy
Its name is inspired by the location where it was found. The village of Tumat is located deep within the Sakha Republic, in Russia. It’s one of those quintessentially Russian areas that enjoy super-cold winters and is covered with permafrost for most of the year.
The specimen of the frozen puppy was found recently, in 2015. It was concluded that it belonged to a long-lost, extinct species of dog—its kind roamed around planet Earth 12,000 years ago.
The Cave Lions of Siberia
With Russia being as large as half a continent and half of it being covered in arctic ice, it’s no wonder that many of these discoveries are found there. This time, scientists uncovered two Eurasian lion cubs deep in the Yakutia Republic in Siberia, Russia. The lion cubs were twins and, sadly, died at a very young age. And it is a miracle that most of their bodies are intact. They lived more than 20,000 years ago, at a time when, probably, Sibera was a bit warmer.
The fighting mood
This moose got actually frozen while it was fighting another moose! That’s pretty incredible and very rare. The discovery consists of two male mosses, found close to one another, in what seems to be aggressive positions. Because mosses usually fight each other every fall, scientists think that the animals got frozen in the middle of the fight. They found themselves in some freezing water and kicked to swim, thus making it look like they were fighting. Furthermore, they can take hundreds of times more radiation than a human can and survive immense pressures. It almost makes me wish I was a Tardigrade!
The Frozen Horse
In 2015, a Chilean snowboarder, Raphael Pease, decided to celebrate his birthday in the mountains on his snowboard; little did he know of the surprise the mountains had prepared for him. While descending, he noticed a single brown spot on the white background. He thought it was a rock sticking from the snow, but suddenly the rocks slightly moved. Raphael rode closer, and it turned out to be a horse. Raphael was very surprised to reveal that the horse was still alive; it must have been trapped just recently. It took several hours for the man and his friend to free the horse from its captivity.
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The Frozen Penguin
The ancient giant human-sized penguin has been found on New Zealand’s South Island. The penguin hunted off New Zealand’s coast in the Paleocene era, 66–56 million years ago. Scientists have raised the possibility that the mega-penguins died out due to the emergence of other large marine predators such as seals and toothed whales.
New Zealand is known for having once been home to other large extinct birds, including the flightless moa, which was up to 3.6 meters tall, and Haast’s eagle, which had a wingspan of 3 meters.
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