6 Creatures Perfectly Preserved in Ice for 46,000+ Years

Scientists just found a wolf pup so well preserved, you can still see the taste buds on her tongue. She has been dead for 57,000 years.

That is not even the strangest thing on this list.

Frozen ground does something no fossil ever could. Instead of rotting away, the animal gets locked in place, fur, eyes, organs and all, waiting for someone to dig it back up.

This video walks through six of the most unsettling finds ever pulled from the ice. A wolf pup with a diet that still baffles researchers. A baby woolly rhino, the only one of its kind ever discovered. A mammoth with blood so well preserved it still poured out when researchers pressed into the tissue. Two lion cubs that look like they are just napping. An armored dinosaur so intact you can see its actual skin. And microscopic worms that woke up and started reproducing after tens of thousands of years frozen solid.

Every one of these was living, breathing, and moving around the planet long before recorded history began. Now they are sitting in labs, giving scientists a window into a world that no longer exists.

Hit play to see what almost 60,000 years of ice can preserve.