Stretching 120 km over the frozen East Siberian Sea, would you dare drive it?
Ancient hunters butchered woolly mammoths at Taba-Yuryakh site some 26,000 years ago.
Life returns to port of Tiksi with construction of a military town.
Almost 1,300 bones of 13 species of mammals unearthed at new site on Gydan peninsula aged between 10,000 and 50,000 years old.
Up to 500 mother bears a year give birth on remote Wrangel island, also the last place to see woolly mammoths.
Its residents will live in a vast man-made 'igloo' to protect them from polar temperatures and some of the most biting winds on the planet.
Bulging bumps in the Yamal and Gydan peninsulas believed to be caused by thawing permafrost releasing methane.
The 19th century vessel - formerly the Royal Navy's HMS Pandora - sank as Americans raced to be first to North Pole.
Shots fired at island campsite to scare away beast which then drops ancient limb preserved in permafrost since prehistoric times.
Findings pave the way for a 1.2 million square kilometre claim to the UN on hydrocarbon drilling rights.