Angelina Sadovnikova, then 11, came across the mummified Pleistocene rodent in a cavity left by woolly mammoth tusk diggers.

DNA tests on the 18,000-year-old Siberian canine cannot define if it's a wolf or a dog.

Aged approximately 45,000 years, this might be the world’s oldest animal statuette.

Extinct woolly giant was killed by early man in extreme north, insist palaeontologist ‘detectives’ as spear wound ‘proven’.

With membrane span of up to 1.5 metres the extinct animal could glide further than 50 metres.

Top-up needed after scientists tracking feathered predators receive huge mobile SMS bills from ‘hundreds of messages’.