The inquisitive baby took a first walk at Orto Doidu zoo in Yakutsk aged three and a half months.

From 'fireworks' made from nothing more than hot water in minus 50C, to surfing in the Pacific, this is the New Year on our doorstep.

Tomsk researchers were the first in the world to catch the enigmatic germ.

Samples taken from extinct animal’s leg during international workshop in the hope of one day bringing the hairy creature back from the dead.

Ancient hunters butchered woolly mammoths at Taba-Yuryakh site some 26,000 years ago.

The prospects of a cloned mammoth is nearer after the sensational discovery of 'living cells' from the ancient creatures in northern Siberia.

Remains of extinct giant unearthed in excavation in Khanty-Mansi.

Scientists presented unique discovery made inside the Batagai crater in Yakutia.

The president's visit to Novosibirsk honours one of the Soviet Union's great heroes but also set the course for future Russian military aviation.