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World’s northernmost Palaeolithic settlement found on Kotelny island in the Arctic

Ancient hunters butchered woolly mammoths at Taba-Yuryakh site some 26,000 years ago.

So who made these amazing ancient artefacts - prehistoric Homo sapiens or Denisovans?

Sledding dogs are far older than previously thought, enabling man to hunt hibernating polar bears

Potential cancer cure among first to be tested at new medicine 'factory'

Scientists in breakthrough in fight against strokes

Concerns over future of joint Russian-American weather station

Meet Sasha - the world's only baby woolly rhino

Dozens of new craters suspected in northern Russia

Scientists map the DNA of ethnic groups in former Soviet Union

How global warming could turn Siberia into a giant crater ‘time bomb’

Bones from 200 million-year-old ‘monster of the sea’ found by accident on Far Eastern island

Secrets of throat singing revealed by scientific research into the unusual sounds

Scientists create ‘virtual Arctic’ to monitor impact of humans on frozen environment

Oldest 'definite' case of human cancer discovered in 4,500-year-old human remains from Siberia

Siberian company tests medicine for countering Ebola

Siberian scientists on brink of Parkinson’s cure

Is this what Siberian men used to shave in 2,000BC?

Exclusive new pictures INSIDE Siberian crater

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Lifelike face of a tattooed Tashtyk man seen for first time behind a stunning gypsum death mask

Aged 25 to 30 when he died 1,700 years ago, he is from the mountainous region of modern-day Khakassia.

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Alfresco art gallery ‘shows woolly mammoths and rhinos depicted by our ancestors 15,000 years ago’

Petroglyphs some 7,000 years older than earlier thought with ancients artists using same style in Siberia and Mongolia.

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Mystery of unique 2,100-year-old human clay head - with a ram’s skull inside

Modern fluoroscopy identifies sheep bones inside the Tagar culture death mask.

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Neanderthals made two epic invasions of Siberia, says new study

Cold-defying conquests traced to 120,000 years ago when they crossbred with Denisovans, and 60,000 years ago when they collected sparkling crystals.

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Giant sauropods lived in polar conditions in world’s coldest region, say scientists

Evidence of the dinosaurs found at Teete locality in Yakutia, just 450 km south of the Arctic Circle.

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Russian birch trees are ‘climbing mountains’ due to climate change

Forests on the march thanks to global warming, says new research by Krasnoyarsk Science Centre.

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Sent to Siberia

Rookie FSB agents are punished for 'indecent' graduation jinx in Moscow
Gelandewagen parade videos leads to 'career change' as Russia demands highest standards from secret servicemen.

Born in Siberia

Up-close laboratory pictures of ancient mummy as scientists recreate his life and times
Probes taken by South Korean experts will reveal lifestyle of this Arctic boy from 800 years ago.

Voice of Siberia

Siberians mark end of the snow season with swimsuit skiing day
Locals undress to impress at resorts across four time zones.

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Lake Baikal 'holds key to new advances in antibiotics'
Scientists make crucial new discoveries of bacteria, up to 30 million years old.

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