10 Most Amazing Discoveries Found Frozen In Ice

Hi everybody! From alligators snorkeling in the frozen swamp, to photographs from a doomed hot air balloon expedition, here are 10 amazing things found frozen in ice. Follow us on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/katrinaexplained/ Subscribe For New Videos! http://goo.gl/UIzLeB Check out these videos you might like: Unbelievable Animals SAVING Other Animals! 🐯https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxehUWvMr38 LARGEST Animals Ever Discovered! 🐙https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yj7F_tPYsU Wild Animals That SAVED Human Lives! 🐻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mllqeVSsIl0 10. Marine Reptiles In Chile, there is an enormous glacier that is beginning to melt, revealing a prehistoric monster! Actually, so far scientists have uncovered 46 different animal remains, belonging to 4 different species of Ichthyosaur. These were large and fast marine reptiles that lived during the mesozoic Era from 245 to 90 million years ago. 9. Frozen Alligators On a freezing morning in January, George Howard thought the lumps sticking out of the iced over swamp were tree stumps. Turned out that these stumps at the Swamp Park alligator preserve in North Carolina were actually his alligators. 8. St. Joseph’s lighthouse During the winter months, Lake Michigan can get pretty cold. And when snowstorms start to batter the area, many of its lighthouses wear their ice for quite a long time. That’s what makes St. Joseph’s lighthouse such a wonder to see during the winter! Many of the lighthouses on Lake Michigan like St. Joseph can develop a wonderful blanket of ice on their exteriors, which drives environmental lovers to come to the area and see what all the fuss is about. 7. Iron Age Artifacts In 2020, a group of Norwegian archaeologists started finding artifacts from the Vikings and the Iron Age frozen inside of one of the melting glaciers in the Jotunheim Mountains. In Norway, just like in the rest of the world, a lot of glaciers are quickly melting. However, alongside this somber course of events have come new discoveries about our past. 6. The Yuka Mammoth The Yuka mammoth is one of the most well known and scientifically valuable animals that have ever been found. It was discovered in 2010 within the Siberian permafrost on the coast of the Laptev Sea in Russia. The most unusual thing about this 39,000-year-old mammoth was that it was mummified, and had the most in-tact mammoth brain ever found, with folds and blood vessels still visible. 5. Ancient Alaskan forest Did you know there's a forest in Alaska that's been hidden for over 1000 years? Again, due to melting glaciers, this once well-concealed forest is coming back into view. As the Mendenhall Glacier has been melting for the past 50 years or so, it’s revealed the occasional log. But recently, it’s been tree after tree, many of them somewhat intact. 4. 46,000-Year-Old Bird Scientists recently found the remains of a bird which they’ve dated to be somewhere around 46,000 years old! Now things can obviously last a long time in ice, but 46,000 years? That’s quite impressive! That amount of time puts this bird back in the last ice age, but Siberia is cold enough that its permafrost is pretty well able to preserve everything locked underneath its soil. 3. Andrée’s Balloon Expedition The North Pole was the crown jewel for many explorers in the past, but it was a treacherous journey regardless of your method of travel. Despite this, in 1897, a group of three Swedish explorers put their brains together and figured that getting there would be easier if they traveled via hot-air balloon. S.A. Andrée and his team set out to do the impossible… and it didn’t go very well. 2. Worms Just imagine being in a state of coma for 42,000 years and then waking up again! I know it looks like something out of a movie, but it's not far from the truth. A group of nematodes, which are parasites that hang out in the soil, were recently brought back to life after an astonishing 42,000 years frozen in ice! We all may be a little bit groggy after we wake up in the morning, but one can only imagine how these nematodes must have felt when they emerged back to life. 1. Allan Hills 84001 Allan Hills 84001 (ALH) is a meteorite which was discovered by a team of meteorite hunters in the Antarctic ice in 1984. From the outside, it doesn’t look like much – it’s a little over three-and-a-half pounds (1 kg), and it looks more like a weird brick than anything from out of this world. Like all other meteorites, it had a thick layer of glass known as a fusion crust which all meteorites share on their exteriors #mysteriousdiscoveries #frozeninice #recentfinds #originsexplained