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'Lake Baikal is truly astonishing. One of the most ancient geographical features on Earth, it is estimated to be 30 million years old'

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Amazingly preserved puppy with whiskers, eyelashes, hair and velvety nose intact puzzle scientists

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

Cave lion figurine made of woolly mammoth tusk found at Denisova Cave

20,000-year-old mammoth murder established: but was it committed by first American migrants?

50,000 year old tiara made of woolly mammoth ivory found in world famous Denisova Cave...

Ancient cave lions had spots, believe scientists, after analysing cub preserved in permafrost

Extinct ancient foal in pioneering cloning experiment is older than initially believed

Cloning of mammoth will be successful in 10 years, predicts head of region earmarked for their home

Cute first pictures of new 50,000 year old cave lion cub found perfectly preserved in permafrost

Puzzle over Arctic ‘breeding and dying ground’ for ancient animals from woolly mammoth era

New tests underway on Mona Lisa of geo-archeology - a bone that proves man hunted woolly mammoth

Scientists take samples in bid to clone extinct foal as first step to restoring woolly mammoth

Investment sought for $5.9 million cloning centre to bring back mammoths and other extinct species

Suspected first trace of Beringia people on the land bridge - now mostly sunken - joining Russia and North America

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Giant sauropods lived in polar conditions in world’s coldest region, say scientists

Evidence of the dinosaurs found at Teete locality in Yakutia, just 450 km south of the Arctic Circle.

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Russian birch trees are ‘climbing mountains’ due to climate change

Forests on the march thanks to global warming, says new research by Krasnoyarsk Science Centre.

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Did extinct woolly mammoths have ‘heaters’ to melt snow in their trunks?

Intriguing evidence from well-preserved calf Yuka of ‘cobra hood-shaped bulge’ on trunk that is absent in modern elephants

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2,300 year old wooden house is rebuilt, and it fits together down to the last centimetre

Timber from potentate’s log cabin was superbly persevered in permafrost, allowing us to see how ancient man lived.

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Siberian puppy frozen in permafrost for 14,300 years gives scientists major RNA breakthrough

Never before has RNA - Ribonucleic acid - sequencing been carried out from so far back in time.

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Race against time and waves as Russian archaeologists rescue Siberia’s remarkable Atlantis

Sensational underwater treasures - including mummies of Hun-era fashionistas - recaptured from oblivion.

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Amazingly preserved puppy with whiskers, eyelashes, hair and velvety nose intact puzzle scientists

Cave lion figurine made of woolly mammoth tusk found at Denisova Cave

20,000-year-old mammoth murder established: but was it committed by first American migrants?

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