Video and pictures show experts conducting initial autopsy on the extinct creature preserved by permafrost.

Scientists from Novosibirsk-based Vector are working in Yakutia on a paleo-virus experiment.

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

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

Little cat is possible brother to ‘Boris’ found last year some 15 metres (50ft) away.

Discovery of blood in creature frozen for 43,000 years is seen as major breakthrough by international team.

Eaten by an ancient cave lion or bear, only the tail was left, preserved by the Siberian permafrost.

A Siberian baby mammoth, born thousands of years ago has caused a sensation in the West after being the ‘star’ of BBC and Discovery Channel TV project.

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

Samples taken from cubs frozen in permafrost for at least 12,000 years.