The microbes and animals found around the volcanoes seem to have developed unique mechanisms to withstand the extreme pressures and low temperatures at depths of up to 165 meters. The findings in Lake ...

The lensman gave the audience at Glenburn Penthouse a peek into his close encounters of the wild kind at a session hosted by ...

While Lake Baikal's remote location may seem inhospitable, the colossal water reserve supports a remarkable range of life, including 1,500–1,800 animal species, hundreds of plant species, and ...

There are many places where you might come face-to-face with bears outside the USA, and these are some of the typical bear sighting destinations ...

A colossal lake in Siberia is the deepest in the world and covers an area larger than a number of entire countries. Lake Baikal, in the southern part of eastern Siberia, Russia, is among the ...

A new study appearing in Science Advances compares Pleistocene vegetation communities around Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia, to the oldest archeological traces of Homo sapiens in the region. The ...

And in all these places, they found life. Lake Baikal may be the most biodiverse lake on the planet – amazing considering its relatively cold water temperatures – with more than 1,000 species of ...

A gorgeous photo of frozen methane bubbles trapped in ice within the deepest lake on earth has gone viral. The picture— taken by photographer Kristina Makeeva and also shared by NASA —shows ...

Siberia’s Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world, as well as the largest body of freshwater on the planet, containing more freshwater than all five of North America’s Great Lakes combined.