The German president was today honouring Vyacheslav Molodin, deputy director of Novosibirsk Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography.

New find expected to 'change our understanding of the evolution of animals'.

Ancient hunters butchered woolly mammoths at Taba-Yuryakh site some 26,000 years ago.

Underground cryostorage facility will become largest in world, using Siberia's permafrost to naturally safeguard food and plants for 100 years.

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

After this year's discovery of uncongealed mammoth blood, experts are confident of new discoveries.

Pioneering research in Novosibirsk can help formulate cures for depression in European people.

Ideas are clearly needed for more effective ways of countering the annual wildfire scourge, as the trend remains towards drier and hotter summers.

Satellites show giant hole ringed by 20 'baby craters'.

Brain of young female Yuka, preserved in permafrost for 39,000 years, is 'identical' to today's elephants, say scientists.