Buried in the permafrost was the 37,000-year-old mummified body of a baby sabre-toothed tiger. The kitten was found frozen in a block of ice in Yakutia, and was astonishingly perfectly preserved.

Deep beneath the surface, down where the earth is cold and dark, the drills and jackhammers unearthed a beast, a baby saber-tooth tiger, completely frozen in a huge block of ice. The site had ...