‘Male siblings born 44,000 years ago' found ten metres apart in Yakutia but the truth is rather different - amid hopes to bring species back to life.

Samples taken from cubs frozen in permafrost for at least 12,000 years.

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

The young beast's head was resting on a paw in frozen ground for up to 50,000 years, shows amazing first picture.

Infant lost its mother but 43,500 years later gives remarkable evidence that cavemen in prehistoric Europe were RIGHT to draw the species with spots.

But then Siberia also has no less than SEVEN real Santa figures, and you can meet them all here.

Angelina Sadovnikova, then 11, came across the mummified Pleistocene rodent in a cavity left by woolly mammoth tusk diggers.

Blazes raging just 50km from the Arctic Ocean in Yakutia.

Exclusive pictures show autopsy on a four year old bison preserved in ice since ancient times.

Experts crack prehistoric mystery over extinct babies preserved in permafrost since Ice Age, and reveal the VERY surprising colour of this 'tigerlion' species.