Scientists determined the age of marine mammal bones that thawed out from beneath a glacier on the Wilczek Land Island of the Franz Josef Land Archipelago. "We were able to visit the Wilczek Land Island during the Arctic Floating University expedition back in 2025," he said. The bones of cetaceans and pinnipeds, which thawed out on the Wilczek Land Island, may be significantly older, the expert continued. During the expedition in 2026, the Arctic Floating University participants continued their study of the skeletal remains. "This suggests they could not have been thrown there by waves, much less by wind; since they are too heavy," the Arctic Floating University expedition's leader Aleksandr Saburov said.