Seven year old Raul Kutliakhmetov was trying to rescue his best friend - a stray dog - stuck in three-metre deep roadside service shaft.

Two year old Lemon takes the bucket to the well, fills it up from the pump and carries it back home.

DNA of a fossil tooth found in the Altai Mountains shows early man and his best friend were together 19,000 years earlier than previously understood.

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.

The world famous traveller made call ahead of his latest epic adventure by dog sled to Greeland via the North Pole.

Siberian mammoth graveyards provoke a new theory on why the creatures were wiped out, and how dogs were domesticated.

Before Yuri Gagarin conquered space for humans, some 29 flights took place with dogs, the unsung heroes of man's arrival in the cosmos.

A macabre find has been made of 30 bags containing the remains of 'dogs' with all their skin and hair removed.

Maru was sent back to the kennels where she was born on Trans-Siberian railway by 'allergic' owner, but escaped the train.