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Yakutian horses are a semi-wild breed that have an extra-long, thick coat suited for Siberia’s frigid winter temperatures. When they and other grazing animals trample down the insulating snow, the freezing Siberian air reaches more deeply into the ground's permafrost.

Credit: Pleistocene Park

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