Tomsk scientists are designing the robotic Ronaldo in a quest for the best artificial player.

Fast track evolution as great Siberian symbol is surprisingly unmasked as an immigrant breed.

Daring criminals intended to walk across frozen lake to take skins and ‘potency cures’ into China.

Now aged 71, Ted Kohner, son of Chaliapin's daughter Tatiana, is making his first visit from the US to the motherland of his iconic opera singer grandfather.

New find expected to 'change our understanding of the evolution of animals'.

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

A new study of some of the world's most remote islands show there are dramatic climate changes since detailed research by Soviet scientists 55 years ago.