What’s in your permafrost?

A man walking in his Arctic village found the remains of a 20,000-year-old bison.

Perhaps unfortunately, the man did not call on scientists immediately, but waited until it melted out of the soil, then gathered it up the bones and some internal organs and carried them away.

Iapetus flyby

This is just a cross-post to the Panda’s Thumb notice that on Sept. 10, Cassini made a close pass to Iapetus, Saturn’s most mysterious moon.