Remote herders from 45 families get new animals to rebuild herds decimated by 'zombie' anthrax infection.

Customs seized 5.8 kilograms of extinct woolly mammoth remains from the Russian citizen.

Subsidence from old coal mine a possible cause of latest mystery hole.

Blocks of soil and ice thrown hundreds of metres from epicentre of the funnel at the Yamal peninsula.

Sensational find of  head of the beast with its brain intact, preserved since prehistoric times in permafrost.

Examination of ancient cave lion cub offers prospect of 'oldest-ever breast milk'.

Found in a frozen prehistoric squirrel's nest, scientists make intriguing discovery.

It sounds like a real-life Jurassic Park, but the woolly mammoth could be stomping the Siberian taiga in less than 20 years.

In each case the deadly decades-old 'zombie' disease originated in contaminated soil and was awakened by hot Arctic summer weather.