Palaeontologist says osteoporosis could have been major contributor, brought on by a lack of minerals in habitat from climate change.

I had a sense that the fear I had known was gone and would never come back. It was an amazing feeling!

Thousands of years ago woolly mammoths came here to die: but why?  The macabre ancient remains haunt local residents to this day. 

Neglected by her parents as well as a 'stepfather from hell': Will no-one help this teenager stranded 6,000 miles from home?

Cloning hope after autopsy of 'pet' frozen in permafrost since pre-historic times.

Altai floodwater could be sent to parched Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China, says Russian agriculture minister.

One of the giants of science in the Soviet and post-USSR eras, a former president of the Academy of Sciences, died aged 87 after a long illness.

Her US mom still refuses to take back the daughter who 'loves her', and who she abandoned in Russia 32 months ago.