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'Right on the bank of the river there is a station Ob, a big trading city with magnificent cathedral, great schools and shops — very American-like.'
1904, priest Mitrophan Serebryaniy
Siberian wolly mammoth
Blood and muscle from an extinct mammoth is found in Siberia say scientists
The discovery of an ice-preserved female mammoth comes amid a debate on whether scientists should try to recreate the species using DNA.
Extinct Siberian woolly mammoths may hold the key to advances in human heart surgery
Research in some of Russia's remotest regions on 43,000 year old bones may have a very modern application in saving lives of coronary patients.
Woolly mammoths could be living in Siberia 'within a decade or two'
It sounds like a real-life Jurassic Park, but the woolly mammoth could be stomping the Siberian taiga in less than 20 years.
39,000 year old brain starts to give up its secrets
Scientists get inside a woolly mammoth's head to understand behaviour of the extinct species.
Scientists discover world's 'best-preserved woolly mammoth trunk'
A Siberian-led international team finds 10,000 year old 'red meat' on female remains excavated from permafrost in Sakha Republic.
Female woolly mammoth gave birth to nine babies: can she have another 28,000 years later?
Fresh blood discovery by scientists in remains of extinct creature as experts start research this month in hunt for live cells.
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Sent to Siberia
Rookie FSB agents are punished for 'indecent' graduation jinx in Moscow
Gelandewagen parade videos leads to 'career change' as Russia demands highest standards from secret servicemen.
Born in Siberia
Up-close laboratory pictures of ancient mummy as scientists recreate his life and times
Probes taken by South Korean experts will reveal lifestyle of this Arctic boy from 800 years ago.
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