Nature is finally showing us some of her real treasures! There's no telling what wonders we will discover when all of this permafrost finally melts for good and mankind is able to access these inaccessible and rich terrains!
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/arcti...
https://www.google.com/search?q=permafrost+bacteria&oq=perma...
Although, back in his day they thought that Antarctica already had a giant inland sea. Jules Verne also wrote about the idea in some of his stories. It's hard to imagine these days, but there used to be parts of the earth's surface that nobody had ever surveyed in fairly contemporary times.
"Extensive research examined the implications of using the word "man" generically to refer to both males and females, as in the word "mankind", and it was found that it elicited mental imagery that tended to focus more on males than females. The conclusions were that the so-called "generic" senses ofthe word were subconsciously contaminated by the male sense of the word. The result: women were getting lost in our language." - Kerry A. Bodine, "C'mon Guys: This Way to a Study on Language and Sexism"