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Sakha Republic
Batagaika crater (megaslump)
Fossil site Source-confirmed findsRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Crystals and mineralsAlso reported: woolly mammoth, Lena horse, bison, musk ox, mummified carcasses.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Middle to Late Pleistocene
The expanding thaw slump exposes permafrost spanning roughly 200,000 to 650,000 years; the Verkhoyansk horse, Batagai bison and the mammoth calf Yana came from here.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
collapsing headwall, mudflows, remote
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.