12 Most Incredible Things Found Frozen in Ice

ice is nature's great preservative when we buy groceries we put them in the freezer because we know they'll last longer when they've been frozen over we found shipwrecks fossils and animal remains preserved in ice for thousands of years almost perfectly protected from the passing of time with cryogenic freezing it's possible that human beings will one day be able to sit out eternity that's for the future though right now we have this fantastic video of incredible things that have been found in ice when you go on a polar expedition not everything you take with you makes it back if you're unlucky you might not even make it back yourself Sir Ernest Shackleton did safely return from a trip to the South Pole in 1907 but he left some truly spectacular whisky behind him over a century later it's now been found and apparently it tastes fantastic the bottles of McKinley's rare old Highland malt were a personal favorite of the famous explorer but he had to abandon them when he aborted his mission in 1909 a century of snow and ice settled over the top of them but a research team in New Zealand located them after a painstaking operation after being slowly and delicately thawed out in Scotland one of the 10 bottles has been opened and poured if any whiskey connoisseurs happen to be watching this we're told it's mellow fruity and light it turns out that almost nothing that's lost in the Antarctic stays lost forever another priceless relic of over a century ago has recently been rediscovered and thought out and this time it's a journal specifically the journal is the property of George Murray Levesque who is part of the doomed Terra Nova expedition led to the South Pole by Robert Scott in 1910 Levesque was one of the lucky ones he escaped from the mission with his life but only after spending a winter hiding out in an ice cave and eating penguin meat to survive it's not known when Levesque dropped the journal but the entries and it capture happier and more hopeful times during the early part of the expedition during which everyone expected their travelers to end successfully the journal was discovered inside a nice case revealed by melting snow close to Cape Evans during the most recent summer you don't tend to think of valleys as existing in Antarctica but that doesn't mean that they aren't there we know they exist and they're absolutely huge scientists have recently discovered not just one but three massive valleys underneath the icy surface of the land connecting the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and the East Antarctic Ice Sheet together the newly found features have been named foundation trough offset rift basin and patuxent trough foundation is the largest of them by far with a length of 217 miles and 22 miles wide all three of the valleys function as highways for the ice allowing it to flow from the relatively stable sheet of ice on the east and shore up the less stable Western sheet none of the three had ever been noted or recorded until 2019 because of satellite blind spots caused by the orbit of ice mapping orbiters out of sheer curiosity scientists flew specially equipped claims over the blind spots last year to see if they were missing anything the discovery of the valleys was there it's not just the land below the Antarctic that's recently been giving up its secrets we've discovered a lot more about what lies beneath the ice of the Canadian Arctic to a PhD student named Anja rue de Hauser was conducting a project to analyze the bedrock below Nunavut Devon Island in early 2018 when he spotted an unusual radar reflection coming from the ice cap on a recent survey usually such a reflection would suggest liquid water but the ice cap on Devon Island is over a quarter of a mile thick and 13 degrees below freezing the existence of liquid water shouldn't have been possible the only possible explanation was that the water was incredibly salty and ran a long way deep below the surface anjali Erised that salt from the bedrock was being leached by the mineral halite and melting the ice directly above it thus creating a salt lake that sealed off from the rest of the world scientists believe that this may be how liquid water exists on Jupiter's moon Europa meaning that land below Canada's ice is like an alien world although dinosaurs get most of the headlines they weren't the only giant animals who roamed the face of the earth in prehistoric times there were also saber-tooth Tigers and woolly mammoths sadly the huge but cute looking mammoths didn't survive into the modern human era but we still occasionally find the remains of them encased deep inside the ice a complete female mammoth body was recently found in Nellie akov ski islands in Siberia Russia not only is this skeleton complete but flesh muscle and fur were still attached to the body what makes the find all the more remarkable is that the flesh was so well preserved that the muscle tissue is still red as if it were fresh meat the lower half of the mammoth was found trapped inside totally pure ice with the upper half having lain in the tundra for thousands of years it's not known how the mammoth died but the fact that the trunk was found some distance from the carcass suggests it may not have been a natural end Antarctica hasn't always been a frozen wasteland in the distant past it was a verdant oasis perfect for sustaining life we know that because we occasionally find the fossils and remains of prehistoric creatures there including a recently discovered new subspecies of dinosaur a type of orcas or the creature was about the size of an iguana and would be considered an ancestor to modern crocodiles it was carnivorous and would have survived by eating mammals and amphibians in honor of the legendary Explorer we mentioned earlier on this 250 million year old species has officially been named Antarctic ox shackle Tony researchers are now having to think again about the diversity and spread of early earth creatures as Africa and Antarctica were once joined together it's always been assumed that the animals that lived on the land back then would be similar as no creature anything like this crocodile precursor has ever been discovered in Africa that may not have been the case after all newspapers and the United Kingdom got very excited earlier this year when the fossil of a gigantic sea creature was discovered in Antarctica they thought it might be a relative of the fabled Loch Ness monster the 70 million year old remains belonged to an elasmosaurus en't the largest sea dinosaur ever found it's also one of the most complete ancient reptile fossils of any description ever located when it was alive this humongous creature would have weighed around 15 tonnes and measured 40 feet in length despite their fearsome size they probably wouldn't attack ships and boats if they were still alive today their diet was primarily made up of mollusks and crustaceans relatively speaking this particular elasmosaurus a late comer to the dinosaur party it lived in died a mere 30,000 years before the mysterious mass extinction event that wiped dinosaurs from the face of the planet although it looks a little like the standard image the Loch Ness monster it can't be the same species Loch Ness was only formed 10,000 years ago long after the dinosaurs were gone the wreckage of the Pegasus isn't so much a fine from the ice as something that's been committed to the ice and then left there you have to look hard if you want to see it it's a white plain embedded in a snowy icy white terrain around New Zealand's McMurdo Station Pegasus is at sea 121 Lockheed Constellation plane that crashed as it came in to land at the station in October 1970 the force of the crash was so severe that it ripped away the landing gear and shattered the exterior paneling at the base of the plane and yet somehow the crew walked away with only minor injuries as the plane was half buried in a mound of ice some distance from the runway it was decided that a salvage mission wasn't warranted the aircraft was likely damaged beyond use and so risking life and limb to dig it out wasn't worth it he's now become a landmark in fact it gave its name to the nearby Pegasus airfield Einar Umbach is a reindeer hunter by trade he doesn't know much about archaeology but he knew the enormous sword he found 5,000 feet above sea level on a mountain in the south of Norway was probably historically significant so he took it to the experts they confirmed his suspicions the sword is 1,100 years old and once belonged to a Viking warrior how it got there is another question no Viking sword has ever been found at such an altitude before the warrior race has never been thought of as particularly proficient climbers we have the altitude to thank for the excellent preservation of the sword up there where the air is thin and the ice covers the surface the rust and rot process happens much more slowly for most of each year it would have been encased in ice and even during warmer months it was surrounded by freezing scree the most likely explanation for its presence is that it belonged to a Viking warrior who became lost in the mountains and died there although the lack of any other artifacts nearby is a little strange this wall of frozen fish in South Dakota USA looks like an art exhibition if only it were anything so lovely the real story behind it is a little more grisly than that the thin sheets of ice contain a variety of fish species such as carp which are native to the area the fish are long dead they died when ice formed over the surface of Lake Andes and prevented sunlight reaching algae in the water without algae no oxygen was produced without oxygen the fish suffocated once the fish were dead they floated to the surface then the plunging temperatures froze the water on the surface and pushed it towards the shore creating the fishy ice walls it's an unpleasant tale although if the local residents are to be believed the story isn't as unpleasant as the smell fortunately they didn't have to worry about that for very long bald eagles American crows and other birds were quick to spot the easy meals and flew in to take them away as the ice thought perhaps one of the most remarkable sets of frozen animal remains ever found is the Yuka gear bison a mummified nine thousand year old bison that was discovered by a North Siberian tribe in the lowlands of Yana and a Gurkha back in 2011 the cadaver was in such good condition that experts were able to perform almost a complete autopsy on it and discovered much about the steppe bison which is a direct relative of the bison that still exist on earth today even the Bisons brain had survived the freezing process to the point where the team was able to perform a CT scan on it as easily as if it had died the previous week the heart blood vessels and digestive system of the bison also have survived the full nine thousand years although some of the other internal organs have undergone dramatic shrinkage after studying the creatures Anatomy the scientists came to a conclusion about the manner in which its life came to an end there was a distinct lack of fat around the Bisons abdomen so it almost certainly starved dog lovers may want to brace themselves because the Yuka gear bison isn't the only well-preserved animal to be retrieved from the ice of Siberia there's also the to Maud puppy this cadaver is even older than the Bison and lived somewhere around twelve thousand four hundred years ago it may look like a household pad but it doesn't correspond to any species currently known to exist on earth so it's presumed to be an extinct form of canine that might not be the case for long though scientists say that the body is in such good condition they may be able to resurrect the species using cloning technology as was the case with the Bison the creatures brain is mostly unharmed by its years of ice and toomin its teeth are in excellent condition - and it looks like it would be capable of giving you quite a nasty bite if it needed to based on its size and the development of its organs scientists believe the dog was young possibly only a puppy perhaps it was a companion animal for a long-forgotten early human family subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications and you will be the first to know when a new video comes out thank you for watching and see you in the next video

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Published: Wed Nov 06 2019