Now The Siberian Times is seeking to find descendants of British mariner Captain Joseph Wiggin. 

Residents of a Urals town noticed the dog standing completely still on a frozen pond for 36 hours.

Powerful telescope placed 1.3km below the icy water hopes to track invisible particles from the sun and stars.

Extinct woolly giant was killed by early man in extreme north, insist palaeontologist ‘detectives’ as spear wound ‘proven’.

Video shows how breeders corral the horses into the water, believing the island grass is more nutritious.

The remarkable rescue and evacuation effort was needed because of a severe break-up in the ice sheet due to global warming.

Fragments of the meteorite which exploded over the Urals have revealed  their geological identity to Siberian scientists.

Environmental experts say levels of contamination were 193 times normal.