Tomsk researchers were the first in the world to catch the enigmatic germ.
This year sees the 400th anniversary of the House of Romanov, the Russian royal family thrown on the scrapheap of history in 1917.
Forests on the march thanks to global warming, says new research by Krasnoyarsk Science Centre.
Culture on edge of Siberia was 'as advanced' as in Middle East, then considered to be the apex of development.
First pictures of remains at least 10,000 years old found in Siberia's Sakha Republic.
Some 15 massive skulls disovered inside a cave in the Ural Mountains, where the bears went to die in late Pleistocene.
Extinct woolly giant was killed by early man in extreme north, insist palaeontologist ‘detectives’ as spear wound ‘proven’.
Massive Siberian source of diamonds formed by an asteroid 35 million years ago can 'overturn entire world gem market'.