Siberia

Finds from the Seima-Turbino culture. Source: “Ancient DNA reveals the prehistory of the Uralic and Yeniseian peoples”, Nature.

Ancient DNA reveals that the origins of Hungarian and Finnish are in Yakutia, Siberia, far from Western Europe

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A major study in Nature analyzes hundreds of ancient genomes and traces an east-west migration that shaped the Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian languages. The findings connect to the Saimaa-Turbino networks and the Yamania expansion, and also offer early clues to a Dana-Yenisei connection.
Siberia Photo: usgs – unsplash

Hot summer in Siberia

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The fires in the state of New South Wales in Australia, 2019. From Wikipedia

You can't see the forest

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Pithovirus sibericum - a giant virus that attacks amoebae discovered in Siberia. Photo: Julia Bartoli & Chantal Abergel, IGS, CNRS/AMU

A giant virus was discovered that was frozen for 30 thousand years in the Siberian ice, represents a third family of giant viruses

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woolly mammoth. A model from a museum display in British Columbia, Canada. From Wikipedia

In Siberia, the body of a woolly mammoth was found with blood flowing from it

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Hairy mammoth. Illustration: From Jumpstory.com

Findings in the Siberian ice may explain how the mammoths became extinct

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