Almost 1,300 bones of 13 species of mammals unearthed at new site on Gydan peninsula aged between 10,000 and 50,000 years old.

As Western children salute Santa's Rudolph, here in the Sakha Republic the antlered animals are in peril from ravenous predators.

Unique research station in the remote taiga is used by scientists worldwide to measure if man is behind climate change.

More than 20 calves born although park keepers say there could be more.

Andrey Solovyev keeps a lonely all-winter vigil in Yakutia in search of the legendary Labynkyr Devil.

Kitten is one of the world’s rarest big cats, with only 91 known adults surviving in the wild.

Unearthed on the edge of the Arctic, she is the only woman so far found in an otherwise all-male necropolis, buried in a cocoon of copper and fur.

None are naked: instead, they're far more interesting…