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'On the Eve of the First World War, the single Siberian province of Irkutsk was larger than all of India'

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Race to unravel mystery of 1908 Tunguska catastrophe - the world’s biggest explosion

Russian scientists hopeful of finding traces of cosmic matter left after the explosion.

Cooking secrets of the Neolithic era revealed in groundbreaking scientific tests

60,000-year-old Neanderthal ‘Swiss Army Knife’ found in Siberian cave

Unique 5,000 year old figurine with feather headdress found in old potato field in Novosibirsk

Is this proof early man weaponised ivory from woolly mammoth tusks to kill....woolly mammoths?

Chic women's jewellery made of coal, encrusted with jade and coral from 2,200 years ago

To bee or not to bee? Unique bumblebee in Arctic is identified as new species

Meet the mummified Polar beauty, her long eyelashes and hair still intact after 900 years

Skull of 1,000 year old Arctic chieftain's infant heir found encased in Persian bronze bowl

Beaver's teeth 'used to carve the oldest wooden statue in the world'

Ancient 'hamster' that outlived the dinosaurs found in Siberia

Unique dragon found in Siberia

7,000 underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' in Arctic

Porcupines lived in Siberia until 30,000 years ago, shows new research

Meet Siberia's new snow sheep, a 'super-climber' with a taste for eating coal

Remains of extinct 'zebra-like horse' found at Denisova cave, home of ancient man

Tattooed owners of the world's oldest carpets get health check after 2,200 years

Still sharp after 34 million years: prehistoric shark teeth found in Siberian river

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Neanderthals made two epic invasions of Siberia, says new study

Cold-defying conquests traced to 120,000 years ago when they crossbred with Denisovans, and 60,000 years ago when they collected sparkling crystals.

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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 to unravel mystery of 1908 Tunguska catastrophe - the world’s biggest explosion

Cooking secrets of the Neolithic era revealed in groundbreaking scientific tests

60,000-year-old Neanderthal ‘Swiss Army Knife’ found in Siberian cave

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