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Without further ado, this is the naked scientists.

Hello, welcome to the naked scientist podcast.

This is the show that brings you the biggest breakthroughs

and also talks to the major movers and shakers

in the worlds of science, technology and medicine.

I'm Chris Smith, and this week we're looking at the elements of life,

frozen deep in time.

Thank you. Across our planet, natural archives preserve the biological footprints of species long gone from woolly mammoths at the macro scale through plants and seeds to dormant bacteria and viruses at the micro end of the spectrum.

And one environment that safeguards some of this material in the best condition of all is the cold.

In other words, in ice.

So this week, we're going to look at what's sitting in nature's deep freeze and some amazing stories of what we can actually bring back to life, in some cases thousands of years later.

Let's begin with the largest.

In 2010, Tusk Hunters in the Arctic Circle discovered the perfectly intact body of a young woolly mammoth that had been preserved in the permafrost.

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