Frozen Siberian mummies reveal how Indigenous Yakuts preserved their genetics, traditions and shamanism for centuries, ...

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A new DNA analysis of the mummies of historical Indigenous Yakuts reveals resistance to 17th-century Russian conquest.

New skull discoveries and DNA analysis are unravelling the mysteries of the Denisovans.  Paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer ...

Temperatures regularly plunge to -40C in this city and exposed skin can show first signs of frostbite within 10 minutes.

Temperatures there frequently dip below -40C and every single trip outside requires layers of clothing. Cars freeze, bus ...

The most complete bear ever recovered from Siberia’s frozen ground looks less like a fossil and more like a sleeping animal ...

While Yakutsk might be the coldest city, it’s not actually the coldest place in the entire world. This accolade goes to the ...

Among the 15 victims of a mass shooting at Australia's Bondi Beach targeting an event for the Jewish festival of Hanukkah ...

In Yakutsk, Siberia, life continues unfazed by temperatures plummeting to minus 49 Fahrenheit. Residents, accustomed to extreme cold, step out in heavy layers, proving that preparation, not avoidance, ...

An extended heat wave that has been baking the Russian Arctic for months drove the temperature in Verkhoyansk, Russia—north of the Arctic Circle—to 100.4°F on June 20, the official first day of summer ...

On the remote Yamal and Gydan peninsulas of western Siberia, the landscape is marked by massive craters that look as though the Earth has blown holes in itself. While the origin story of these ...