Batagai horse

Radiocarbon dating shows baby horse is 42,170 years old: bid to restore the species will 'pave the way for return of woolly mammoth'.

Scientists presented unique discovery made inside the Batagai crater in Yakutia.

After a month of warm, dry weather and wildfires, the huge crater nicknamed ‘Mouth of Hell’ is now under direct threat.

Destruction of trees by flames could see Batagai Depression ‘rapidly enlarge’ while remote local settlements also threatened.

Plan for surrogate mare to give birth and bring back to life long-gone species in Russia’s coldest region.

Permafrost preserved the ‘oldest blood in the world’ boosting hopes of bringing extinct species back to life.

Exclusive footage of pioneering work by Russian and South Korean scientists finding oldest blood ever discovered from deep in the Ice Age.

Running water is one of the most soothing and relaxing sounds known to man, but here it signals the rapid thawing of ground frozen for thousands of years.

Locals hear 'booms from the underworld' in giant ravine but now scientists say it holds secrets of the planet's past.