Seasonal greetings to all parts of the world marking Christmas Day on 25 December, even though we have to wait a little longer!

Seasonal greetings from the east of Russia where there are no less than seven different Father Christmas figures to bring joy to children in winter. 

With fur on its tail and twice the size of a human being, no one yet knows what the animal is.

Dating back 40,000 years to the Denisovan species of early humans, new pictures show beauty and craftsmanship of prehistoric jewellery.

Surely not a unicorn but scientists are as yet unsure about the owner of this intriguing horn fragment which is perhaps 18,000 years old.

It takes truly extreme cold for Yakutian students to miss out on their classes: but the big freeze has arrived (except in Chersky).

Experts to check remains uncovered during road building excavations close to Tit-Ary in Khangalassky district.

Now the fun begins: tourists swimming in -60C and momentous meeting between the seasonal icons Chyskhaan and Grandfather Frost.

Arctic permafrost is degrading much faster than expected, warn scientists from the extreme north of Yakutia.