Currently there are 730,000 animals but numbers are 'unsustainable', risking disease spreading and chronic overgrazing.

Experts say a crack has appeared in the precarious granite giant: but if it falls into the lake, it will unleash ancient legends which might change the world.

She has lived in the wilderness for 71 years but famous Old Believer faces the cameras to deliver world a message for first time.

Sunduki is called the Siberian Stonehenge, yet its site is older than the British standing stones, and arguably 'more mysterious'.

Worried about the rapid destruction of permafrost from global warming? Here's how you can counter it by restoring the woolly mammoth habitat.

Remains of the child suggest an 'unknown European invasion of Siberia deep in ancient times'.

Eyecatching belt buckles worn by Xiongnu female invaders is found buried on the banks of the Yenesei River in modern-day Tuva Republic.

Russian scientists deny theory of respected Italian team by 'proving' that the remote blue lake is older than the famous 1908.