Dozens of major tremors recorded this year as scientists monitor 'unusually strong seismic activity' that will one day tear continent in half.

Experts undertake pioneering tests on skulls to finally understand how doctors carried out remarkable operations more than 2,300 years ago.

Russian scientists deny theory of respected Italian team by 'proving' that the remote blue lake is older than the famous 1908.

With partial shells, this intriguing new fossil find in modern-day Yakutia shows this northern polar region in Cretaceous times was not….cold.

Endangered Amur tigress with two cubs born in the wild is at risk from poachers.

Demands increased on 3 August for a 'state of emergency' to be declared on the world's fifth longest river due to a catastrophic shortage of water.

Pioneering facility for the production of possible medicines has been opened to bring scientific research one step closer to mass produced drugs.

Remains of the child suggest an 'unknown European invasion of Siberia deep in ancient times'.

A series of tremors in recent days measuring  4.7 to 6.4 points on the Richter scale have been registered  east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

Leading Russian scientist remains unshaken in view that it was Denisovans despite growing doubts from Western experts.