Tantalising studies now underway to establish if one of two carcases preserved by permafrost has traces of world's oldest mother's milk.
Living bacteria found in permafrost - '3.5 million years old' - is 'scientific sensation' which allows 'mice grannies' to reproduce.
Hi-tech technologies have been used to track smoke plumes from forest fires burning across eastern Russia as they cross the Pacific.
As well as her amazing 'modern' footwear, this Mongolian 'seamstress' went to the afterlife with four changes of clothes, her sewing kit, a horse and a ram's head.
Valentin Danilov was released from jail on Saturday after serving eight years of a controversial 13 year jail sentence for selling state secrets to China.
Infant lost its mother but 43,500 years later gives remarkable evidence that cavemen in prehistoric Europe were RIGHT to draw the species with spots.
The poaching, trade, transportation and possession of endangered animals is to be made a criminal offence in Russia.
Kuzya and Ilona shake off their electronic tags, but all signs show they thrive in wild.