New cities and industries could be created from construction of high-speed railway and motorway routes spanning whole of country.

Unique pictures show prehistoric forensic evidence: spear wounds on the Arctic beast's bone.

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

More than a dozen animals killed by self-appointed executioner and dumped by a river near lakeside town.

The Denisova Cave in the Altai region has given up another riveting secret to modern science, this time equine, say researchers from Novosibirsk.

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

For past year devoted Masha has been waiting in a hospital for the beloved owner who will never return.

Oil slicks, sewage, industrial waste and rubbish floating sea is harming wildlife and could lead to marine crisis.

Reindeer herders find more craters in the far north in a deepening puzzle for scientists.