Confused plants bloom in Sayano-Shushenskiy reserve in Central Siberia, strawberry ripen in the Far East of Russia.
The prospects of a cloned mammoth is nearer after the sensational discovery of 'living cells' from the ancient creatures in northern Siberia.
Shots fired at island campsite to scare away beast which then drops ancient limb preserved in permafrost since prehistoric times.
Once the coal mining capital of Central Kolyma, it was ghosted after the 1996 mine explosion.
First pictures of remains at least 10,000 years old found in Siberia's Sakha Republic.
Pictures prove the gruesome fate of reindeer 'to meet demands for traditional medicines in China and South Korea'.
Samples taken from cubs frozen in permafrost for at least 12,000 years.
Scheme would allow epic journeys from London to the Japanese capital with major international crossing between Sakhalin and Hokkaido.
A deal was signed giving South Korean scientists exclusive rights on cloning the woolly mammoth from tissue samples found recently in the Siberian permafrost.