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Description: Learn about the BIGGEST of everything in the world! Check out our new videos, posted every Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday. There's something for everyone. Be sure to subscribe right here: youtube.com/channel/UCvpjSSIodRfDo9sgwMXLaTw?sub_confirmation=1 10: Frozen Baby Mammoth The year was 40,000 BC, give or take a few millennia. The place was northern Siberia, near the edge of the world during the Ice Age. A baby mammoth was wandering near a riverbank without watching where she was going. Suddenly, without warning, she slipped on some slushy ice or mud and tumbled down into the thick boggy waters below, where she got stuck and began to sink. She was too heavy, too disoriented, and too panicked to get out, and within minutes she drowned in the chilly water. But that was not the end of her story. 9: Greenland’s Trapped Family In other parts of the world, Europeans and Americans were just starting to interact after the first trans-Atlantic voyages. But in the far north of the planet, native people in Greenland struggled for survival against the harsh elements. Sometimes they lost that struggle, as is the case with a family of Inuits. They have been frozen in time for half a millennium and are the best-preserved mummies ever uncovered in that part of the world. 8: Fighting Fish Sometimes you bite off more than you can chew, right? That’s what happened to a pike that attacked and ate a bass fish in a lake in northern Indiana. Unfortunately, the pike won the battle and consumed the bass, but lost the war as he choked on the smaller fish, died, and floated to the surface with his prey still stuck in his jaws. 7: Caveman in Minneapolis Zug Zug was the name of this mysterious caveman discovered encased in a block of ice in a park in Minneapolis, but the truth about this character is not quite as mysterious as you might think. Despite there being evidence of real frozen bodies scattered across the northern reaches of our planet and at high altitudes up in the mountains, this sculpture was actually an exhibit from an ad agency. 6: Frozen Fox The place was the Danube River in southern Germany. The time was winter, right after New Years, in 2017. A hunter uncovered something as remarkable and eye-opening as it was morbid and sad. He used special power tools to cut out a block of ice containing the body of a frozen fox who had fallen into the river and drowned earlier in the season. 5: Whale On The Rocks Off the coast of Newfoundland, in Eastern Canada, a remarkable sight was captured in early 2019. As the winter raged, one man discovered a deceased whale frozen in the ice that covered the surface of the ocean in this frigid sea. Using his drone, the man, Brian King, had the opportunity to record footage of the whale’s body as it sat half embedded in the surface layer of ice. 4: Giant Antarctic Squid In the world of Antarctica, the isolated continent at the bottom of our planet, a remarkable giant squid was discovered frozen in a block of ice by fishermen several years ago. It was brought to Australia where it was observed and analyzed by scientists, but it has been thawed out, preserved with chemicals, and gone on display in the Queensland Museum. 3: Puppy From Siberia There was an early ancestor of our modern best friends discovered recently in the tundra of Siberia, frozen for over 15,000 years. To be precise, using advanced carbon dating techniques scientists placed this creature at 18,000 years old, and it died in childhood. It was found while searching for mammoth tusks, but I personally think it’s far more fascinating to think about early dogs and how our ancestors may have lived with them and domesticated them in the frigid cold of the Ice Age. 2: Otzi The Iceman Iceman sounds like a cool nickname for a neighborhood rascal or hustler. But in this case, Otzi was a man who perished over 5,000 years ago and froze in a glacier deep in the Alps. Specifically, this man was discovered in 1991 in a place called the Otztal Alps, which sit on the border between Austria and Italy. He was named after the location where he was found, which was actually disputed between the two countries for some time before it was decided that his remains would sit in Italy. 1: Frozen Dragon Ice dragons are, of course, images from fantasy novels, but this dinosaur found in Alberta is about as close as we’re ever going to get to the real thing! The name of this remarkable species is Cryodrakon boreas, which basically means ice dragon of the north. Of course, one of the discarded names for this creature was a reference to the popular TV show, Game of Thrones, because few mythical creatures are more iconic than a resurrected ice dragon! In reality, this strange beast was from about 75 million years ago, when the world was much hotter than it is today.