Marooned men went for up to 3 weeks without food on island in Laptev Sea in temperatures of minus 15C.

Tantalising studies now underway to establish if one of two carcases preserved by permafrost has traces of world's oldest mother's milk.

Worrying videos and pictures show how the pristine polar region of northern Yakutia is ablaze.

Kerechene was laboratory-made in South Korea by scientists who also want to genetically engineer the return of the woolly mammoth.

And take part in scientific experiment to PROVE that the leaking of harmful greenhouse gases in the Arctic can be slowed.

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

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

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

Pavel Yakovlev makes ‘great scientific discovery’ near his village in Yakutia.

'The contract in current market parameters is absolutely unprecedented', Putin told investors at the annual Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum.