The skill of ivory softening was used more than 12,000 years ago to make tools - or decorations - that still puzzle modern science.
But then Siberia also has no less than SEVEN real Santa figures, and you can meet them all here.
Samples taken from cubs frozen in permafrost for at least 12,000 years.
Eaten by an ancient cave lion or bear, only the tail was left, preserved by the Siberian permafrost.
….and it was worn by a man!
Kerechene was laboratory-made in South Korea by scientists who also want to genetically engineer the return of the woolly mammoth.
Unique Paleolithic prize for scientists, a jaw of an early human who 'feasted on woolly mammoth' - but may have been cannibalised.
Vladimir Putin surprises a female Siberian student with flowers on her 23rd birthday but also comes face to face with a woolly mammoth.
Permafrost preserved the ‘oldest blood in the world’ boosting hopes of bringing extinct species back to life.
Plan for surrogate mare to give birth and bring back to life long-gone species in Russia’s coldest region.