The Earth is about 4.5 billion years old, and we’ve had our fair share of creepy animals
roam our planet.
Thanks to ice and the thick permafrost, a lot of these mysterious and scary creatures
have been preserved so well, that scientists today can study them and give us insight of
what Earth was like in our distant past.
We have made countless of insane discoveries that have taught us important lessons about
our Earth.
But sometimes we stumble across creatures frozen in ice that we wish we have never seen.
How’s it going Youtube?
Welcome back to another most amazing video.
I’m your host, Landon Dowlatsingh and today we are going to travel to some of the coldest
places on Earth to uncover some pretty terrifying creatures.
But first, I want to know, where are you guys from?
Let me know in the comment section below.
Alright without further adieu, here is the top 10 scary times animals were frozen in
time.
A Mammoth kicks things off in at number 10.
Meet Yuka, a mummified wooly mammoth that is approximately 39,000 years old.
Yuka was found in 2010 in the Siberian permafrost and it was believed that she was between 6-11
years old when she died.
Scientists think that the mammoth fell into the body of water and wasn’t able to free
herself.
Because of this, her lower body including the lower jaw and the tongue was preserved
very well.
But sadly, her upper torso and two legs were chewed on by other predators.
But one of the coolest things about this frozen creature is that her brain is almost completely
intact.
This means that scientists can now study the wooly mammoth’s brain in detail and scientists
were able to conclude that the mammoth’s brain was very similar to the brains of elephants
living today.
Yuka is being called the best preserved mammoth in the history of paleontology.
So does this mean that we might be able to clone the wooly mammoth and bring this extinct
animal back to life?
I’m so down for this, just as long as they don’t like the taste of human flesh then
we’re all good.
A creepy puppy brings us in at number 9.
Back in 2005 the mummified remains of an ancient puppy were discovered in a remote location
in Russia.
What is it with creepy frozen animals being found in Russia.
No seriously, I’m actually kinda concerned.
These remains are estimated to be approximately 12,500 years old.
Researches are pretty confident that this unusual creature was kept as pets and they
weren’t wolves.
The cause of death is believed to have been from a sudden landslide and this strange looking
puppy is actually a Pleistocene (PLY STOW SCENE) Canid and this guy was very well preserved
because he was frozen for over 12,000 years.
Scientists were able to thaw the carcass out and perform a detailed autopsy.
The body was around 70-80% intact which is extremely exciting for scientists because
this is the first time that they can study the brain of this creature.
Should we add this puppy to the list of extinct creatures that we want to bring back to life?
Or should we listen to nature and keep these things in the past?
The Yukagir bison charges into number 8.
Hidden away under frozen ground for nearly 10,000 years, members of the Yukagir tribe
in northern Siberia have discovered the remains of a steppe bison.
The almost perfectly preserved bison was transported to a research facility where scientists performed
an autopsy on the mummified remains.
Other steppe bison mummies have been found before but none of them are as well-preserved
as this one.
His internal organs were almost completely intact and normally you would just find carcasses
that were partly eaten or destroyed because of the permafrost.
The bison was found in a sleeping position with no signs of injury so scientists believe
that he died from natural causes.
DNA analysis will help us to better understand how this bison differs from our modern North
American Bison that are currently living today.
It’s actually so amazing that these creatures were found like this because otherwise, we
can only speculate about what happened in the past.
But now, we have way more insight than ever before.
Cave Lions break onto this list in at number 7.
Paleontologists working in Russia found two preserved, frozen cave lion cubs and this
is probably one of the most complete remains of this species ever to be found.
Just take a look at them.
This is absolutely insane.
Because of how well preserved they were, researchers were able to shed some amazing details about
their life and death.
These lion cubs were twins but sadly, they died at a very young age.
Their death was probably due to the cold but it could have also been from their cave collapsing.
So it’s pretty much a miracle that their bodies are still intact considering that they
lived more than 20,000 years ago.
What we do know is that these lions were extremely ferocious and their species was the largest
lion in existence.
Scientists say that they used to feed on deer, horses and even men.
But for some unknown reason, they went extinct.
But thanks to these young cubs, we might get to learn more about these creatures than ever
before.
And actually a team of scientists tried to clone these extinct lions and bring them back
to life.
Yeah...I’m not sure how I feel about this.
They sound like they could wipe out the human population so I think it’s better that we
leave them dead.
The Kolyma wooly rhinoceros bring us to number 6.
In 2007, gold miners discovered the well-preserved frozen remains of a female woolly rhino at
the opening of a gold mine.
This is actually the first time that we have discovered the whole body of the wooly rhino
in the permafrost.
Whoa, try to say that sentence three times fast.
“The whole body of the wooly rhino” Anyways, The scientists who studied this mummified
carcass said that it probably weighed around 1.5 tons, had thick brown fur and skin, and
it lived approximately 39,000 years ago.
Which is actually pretty recent if you think about it.
Most of its internal organs were lost except for the intestines, stomach and its contents.
Ew that’s gross.
I wonder what they found in his stomach...actually never mind, I didn’t have my lunch yet,
I don’t wanna know.
The mysterious Tardigrade comes onto our list in at number 5.
Ok first of all, I’m just going to go right out and say it.
I think these creatures might take over the world one day.
Or if humans destroy the Earth, these things will be the only living creature left on our
planet.
Tardigrade’s are one of Earth’s greatest mysteries.
People are even speculating that these things aren’t even from our planet.
They are probably the most resilient organisms known to mankind.
They were first discovered in 1773, and scientists have been collected them from chunks of ice
from Antarctica, mud volcanoes on the bottom of the ocean, rain forests and even in Earth’s
upper atmosphere.
These guys are everywhere!
These things can survive asteroid impacts, supernova blasts and gamma-ray bursts.
I’m not sure how we know this or did we test this somehow?
They can survive extreme cold and hot temperatures and they can take hundreds of times more radiation
than a human can.
They can appear dead for as long as 30 years and they will shrink to about 3% of their
size.
But wait, they will revive themselves, rehydrate and regain their strength to make more Tardigrades!
This is actually insane and like I said, the world is going to be taken over by these little
creatures.
You heard it here first.
Now in at number 4 we have a body found frozen in ice that was carrying the smallpox disease.
No seriously guys this might just be one of the most terrifying things I’ve heard all
day.
It literally sounds like the beginning of a terrible horror movie, except this is real
life.
This body was discovered in Siberia of course and it nearly caused a fatal outbreak.
This body was found in a Siberian river and it was still carrying the smallpox disease.
Fortunately for us, the people in charge of its discovery were very careful and no new
outbreaks happened.
But just when you thought you were safe, there could be way more corpses that are frozen
in Siberia but due to the melting permafrost, the virus could be released and we could have
a world-wide epidemic on our hands.
If that’s the case, up to 30 percent of people who catch it will die.
Not to scare you or anything, but climate change is real guys.
And I don’t know about you, but I’m staying far away from Siberia.
There’s just too many creepy things found frozen in the ice there.
Next up on this creepy list, in at number 3 we have a mummified dinosaur.
A museum in Alberta, Canada unveiled a dinosaur so well-preserved that many people are saying
its not a fossil at all.
It’s actually a dinosaur mummy.
Researches are shocked that they were able to find a dinosaur with its skin, armour and
even some of its guts still intact.
This mummified nodosaur is so intact that it still weighs 2,500 pounds.
Scientists are saying that when this dinosaur was alive, he was an enormous four-legged
herbivore that was protected by a spiky, plated armour.
This is probably the closest thing to a real life dinosaur that the world has ever seen
and I’m so tempted to fly over to Alberta and take a look at this thing for myself.
I bet if his blood was still intact we would try to pull a jurassic park and try to clone
him.
If that was the case, I would definitely buy a season pass to that park.
In at number 2 we have Otzi the Iceman.
In 1991, hikers stumbled upon a body that was melting out of a glacier.
At first they thought that this was a missing person who got lost during a hike but they
were very wrong.
It was revealed that this body was actually the mummified remains of a human that dates
back 5300 years.
It looks like he was murdered by an arrow in his back and researches knew that they
had discovered something huge.
He was nicknamed Otzi the iceman and he was around 40-50 years old when he died.
He is actually one of the best researched humans in the world and because of this, we
were able to learn so much about how humans used to live in this time period.
The perfectly preserved woman in ice tops our list off in at number 1.
Ok guys brace yourselves.
This woman is completely frozen in ice and she might not seem that disturbing at first
but trust me, things get pretty intense.
This Ican mummy was found over 20,000 feet above sea level on the edge of a volcano.
Her body was found with other human remains and scientists think that she was accompanied
by her children.
It is said that she was so well preserved that she still had lice in her hair!
The doctors who did her examination were apparently so freaked out by this whole situation because
she looked like she could still be alive.
She was only a teenager when she died more than 500 years ago but it is said that she
was sacrificed during a ritual.
The woman and her children were left on the cold mountain top as an offering to the gods.
And now she is put on display at a museum in Argentina.
Well there you guys have it…