But who were the mysterious Paleolithic artists of these rock drawings?
Eight seamen from the sunken Amuerskaya freighter remain missing from the gold carrying freighter which sank in a storm in late October.
Exceptionally heavy snow falls lead to hunger and death for hardy animals.
After three weeks, the authorities are at a loss to explain what happened to eight out of nine members of the wrecked Amurskaya vessel.
Druzhok was rescued once but swam back to do his duty on the doorstep of the waterlogged house in Eastern Russia.
Cops in the far north of Siberia 'to be issued with reindeer instead of police cars'.
Carcass of dead animal with bird-like beak and fur on its tail poses new questions.
The Amur River rises past 7.35 metres in Khabarovsk city, with Komsomolsk-on-Amur, and Nikolayevsk-on-Amur also braced for new flooding.
The pair used sand spades over several days to dig a hole under fence, then staged freedom bid.
Twice as old as the Egyptian Pyramids, samples of the Shigir Idol are sent to Germany for testing.