Andrey Solovyev keeps a lonely all-winter vigil in Yakutia in search of the legendary Labynkyr Devil.

Mummified potentate and wife were found in burial mound 42 metres in diameter, and they went to the next life alongside 9 geldings, saddled and harnessed.

Thousands of rock paintings make remote area the world’s best place to see 5,000 year old alfresco art.

Salmon dishes were a firm favourite on the lower Amur River, while meat was on menu upstream.

Startling new scientific evidence to be reviewed by international experts which - if true - would transform our knowledge of skills and sophistication of early man.

Aware of accounts of mysterious relic reptiles lurking in the deep, here are the first pictures from a record breaking dive.

Thousands of years ago woolly mammoths came here to die: but why?  The macabre ancient remains haunt local residents to this day. 

Nematodes moving and eating again for the first time since the Pleistocene age in major scientific breakthrough, say experts.

International team of scientists complete major DNA study of extinct beast and fuel hopes of producing clone to live in special park.