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Dog found encased in ICE in -54C temperatures is freed after being dug out by villagers who have now adopted her in Siberia The stray was found by a hospital worker who heard her desperate cries for help The dog was close to death while encased in ice in sub-zero weather in Siberia She was finally … Read more
Udderly brilliant! Cows are fitted with woolly BRAS in the world’s coldest village as temperatures drop to -45C in Siberia Video footage shows cows wearing fur or wool-lined bras as temperatures drop Cows are fitted with the triangular bras in Oymyakon, Russian region of Yakutia Bras help protect tender skin on the udder and saves … Read more
She glides through the ballroom in a clinging, gold lame gown, turning heads and casting glacial smiles. It’s an infamous clip from the U.S. satirical show, Saturday Night Live, and actress Scarlett Johansson is playing a pouty Ivanka Trump in a spoof advertisement for a fragrance: ‘Complicit. For the woman who could stop all this … Read more
University of Bristol palaeontologist Professor Mike Benton has said that the ancestors of both mammals and birds became warm-blooded at the same time, some 250 million years ago. Around this time, life was recovering from the greatest mass extinction of all time – the Great Dying. The Great Dying mass extinction killed around 90 per cent … Read more
A cult leader who claims he is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ has been detained for two months in pretrial custody by a Russian court. Former traffic policeman Sergei Torop, 59, known as Vissarion, is suspected of using physical and psychological violence against a number of followers. Two other leaders of his Church of the … Read more
An extraordinary 2,500-year-old grave of an ancient warrior couple has been found in Siberia. The pair are believed to have died in their 30s and were buried with a baby and an ‘elderly’ servant woman, archaeologists say. The elderly woman was likely in her 60s when she died and was entombed in a crumpled position under the … Read more
39,000-year-old cave bear is discovered perfectly preserved and baring its TEETH in Siberia as scientists hail discovery of ‘world importance’ Russian scientists found the preserved remains of an adult cave bear and a cub Only bones have been found of the prehistoric species that lived in Eurasia Two finds were hailed today by a Russian … Read more
A massive underground methane explosion in Siberia has left behind gigantic 165-foot crater. The hole, called a funnel, was spotted from the air by chance by a Russian TV crew flying over Yamal on an unrelated assignment in July. Scientists suggest it was formed by a buildup of methane gas erupting beneath a pingo, or … Read more
Jonathan C. Slaght has penned a book about his quest to track down and protect the biggest owls on earth. Blakiston’s fish owl are mostly found in the remote East Russian province of Primorye.
Ravaging wildfires are burning further north in the Russian Arctic than had previously been recorded from space. Images captured by a satellite have shown an out-of-control inferno just 30 miles from the Arctic Ocean in the Yakutia region. It comes in a summer of unprecedented heat in northern latitudes in Siberia with locals sunbathing, with … Read more