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WATCH: Kilometers of Beach Snowballs Appear Out of Nowhere in Siberia

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Valery Togo, in a remote Nyda village in Siberia, Russia, has captured on camera thousands and thousands of giant natural snowballs formed by rare weather conditions.

A herdsman guides horses in the steppe area near the town of Kyzyl in the Republic of Tuva (Tyva Region), Russia, on November 4, 2016. - Sputnik International
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In a collaboration between wind, water, ice and cold, a rare phenomenon gave birth to the almost perfectly round snowballs, covering kilometers of the shore of the Gulf of Ob, in the Arctic Circle.

Nyda residents are unused to meteorological surprises, and many did not believe the reports — until they saw the horizonless snowball field with their own eyes.

"It's as if someone spilled them," one villager said, cited by Live Science.

Togo, who ran home to grab his camera, also was amazed at how such perfectly-shaped spheres, some the size of tennis balls and others large enough to build a snowman, could form naturally.

"You have snowballs from this small to this big," Togo says in the video as he picks the frozen spheres up from the ground. "And they stretch for 18 kilometers."

According to scientists, Mother Nature needs no human assistance to create the smooth, cold boulders.

"As a rule, first there is a primary natural phenomenon — sludge ice, slob ice," detailed an official at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, cited by BBC.

Water from high waves then freezes onto these broken-off chunks, and the wind wears down the edges, shaping them into roughly spherical balls.

This is all that is needed to create a perfect battlefield for an epic snowball fight!

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