Experts undertake pioneering tests on skulls to finally understand how doctors carried out remarkable operations more than 2,300 years ago.

Part of Vasyugan Mire - the largest bog in the world - is to become a natural reserve this year, say reports.

He is believed to be 20, born in the wild, never went to school, received no vaccinations, and was cut off from civilisation.

Thrown in as a puppy, the mongrel grew too large to escape through a tiny hole through which local residents gave her food and water.

Modern fluoroscopy identifies sheep bones inside the Tagar culture death mask.

Historic cities of Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk ideal to connect country to buoyant Asian markets.

But who were the mysterious Paleolithic artists of these rock drawings?

Concern is growing over poaching of the 'secretive' manul wild cat - also known as Pallas's Cat.