A baby mammoth that lay almost perfectly preserved for 50,000 years in the now-melting permafrost of eastern Siberia has been unveiled by a team of scientists. The mammoth was a “unique research ...

"The fact that we can't [determine whether it's wolf or dog] might suggest that it's from a population that was ancestral to ...

The Batagaika crater in eastern Siberia, half a mile wide and growing, is the largest of many across the Arctic. As permafrost laced with buried ice thaws, the ground collapses, forming craters or ...

IRKUTSK, June 29. /TASS/. Rescuers have evacuated 490 people from the town of Tulun in the Irkutsk region after massive floods hit the area, the Russian Emergencies Ministry's regional department ...

MOSCOW, July 27. /TASS/. The latest electronic warfare system Palantin will arrive for the Eastern Military District’s specialized unit stationed in the Trans-Baikal Region before the end of thi ...

A blast of frigid air with origins in Siberia will lunge southward across ... cover will not be present over much of the Central and Eastern states, few record-low temperatures may be set.

The 50,000-year-old remains of a baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost have been unveiled to the public by researchers in Russia’s Siberia region ... in the far-eastern Russian area ...

He faces up to seven years in prison if found guilty. Pichugin comes from the city of Ulan-Ude in Siberia but was working on the far eastern island of Sakhalin as a driver.