Driver spots big cat at side of busy road, alerts police, and young male is tranquillised.

Congratulations to South Korean photographer Choi Kisoon for getting unique footage.

Unveiled: two extinct cave lions  - dug from the permafrost - make their first appearance since Pleistocene times.

Lubov means Love in English and this remarkable babushka has done everything for her unusual 'grandchildren'.

Murky underwater videos suggest wreckage of Eira is finally rediscovered off Cape Flora on Franz Josef Land archipelago, where it sank in 1881.

Endangered Amur tigers are protected under President Vladimir Putin's special project.

Owner claims she almost 'passed out' after seeing state of her 'ruined' $250,000 country cottage, in which 3 children lived.

Major discovery of Ben Leigh Smith’s vessel which sank off Franz Josef Land in 1881 sandwiched between two giant icebergs.

One of world’s rarest big cats was hit by a car and went through months of treatment at the rescue centre in Russian Far East.

In distant times, parts of California and Hawaii were administered from the city of Irkutsk.