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Siberia

This photo was taken around 1930 of the Tunguska marshes, the epicenter of the mysterious Tunguska Event.

Podcast: The Tunguska Event

Earth's largest documented impact event happened in a remote corner of Siberia in 1908.

The Podcast Team October 10, 2023

ancient technology

Ancient Hot Pots Helped Hunters Survive the Siberian Ice Age

16,000 years later, they still contain traces of cooked meat and fish.

Matthew Taub February 3, 2020

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach's copy of Boltunov's drawing of the mammoth (which has since been lost).

This Terrible Mammoth Drawing Was a Giant Help to 19th-Century Naturalists

The first reconstruction from a flesh-and-blood mammoth looked more like a pig.

Sabrina Imbler September 27, 2019

Coal depot in the Kemerovo Oblast.

Why 3 Cities in Siberia Are Covered in Black Snow

The toxic flurries are a product of Russia's coal pits.

Jonathan Carey February 19, 2019

The tiny bone fragment known as "Denisova 11" that yielded these unexpected results.

Found: Remains of a Half-Neanderthal, Half-Denisovan Ancient Human

We finally have first-generation evidence that our ancestors interbred.

Matthew Taub August 22, 2018

Stroganina

This is Siberia's sashimi, a simple delicacy born in one of the world’s coldest climes.