A new type of swimming reptile has been discovered in Russia on the banks of the Volga River. It has been given the Mongolian name for the river, meaning spirit of the water. The reptile – a new ...

The skull of the new species, dubbed "Luskhan itilensis," meaning the Master Spirit from the Volga river, is 1.5m in length, indicating a large animal.

Another important discovery made on the Volga River banks is an ichthyosaur Leniniastellans, ... The remains of the six-meter long animal - which was around 20 cm in diameter ...

Created in 1919, this vast expanse of land 30,000 kilometres square is a wildlife paradise. Humans are few and far between. ... From their camp sites on the banks of the Volga river, ...

This week, Russian Life takes you to the Volga Delta near Astrakhan, where Europe’s largest river flows into the Caspian Sea. This unique environment makes the region a fisherman’s dream. Far from the ...

The skull of the beast, measuring 1.5 meters (5 feet) long, was first discovered on the banks of the Volga River, near the city of Ulyanovsk, in 2002, but has remained undescribed until now.

The beast was identified through seven of its vertebrae, which had been stuck inside a cliff for more than 130million years before erosion washed the bones up on the banks of the Volga river near ...