FILE PHOTO: A member of an expedition group stands on the edge of a newly formed crater on the Yamal Peninsula, northern Siberia November 9, 2014 REUTERS/Vladimir Pushkarev/Russian Centre of Arctic Exploration
A member of an expedition group stands on the edge of a newly formed crater on the Yamal Peninsula, northern Siberia
  • Scientists offered a new explanation for the huge craters that keep appearing in Siberia. 
  • These craters, first spotted in 2012, can be more than 160 feet deep and over 65 feet wide. 
  • They may be due to hot time bombs made of natural gas building up under the frozen ground.

Scientists are putting forward a new explanation for the giant exploding craters that seem to be randomly appearing in the Siberian permafrost.