Baby Woolley Rhinoceros Found in Siberia:
The Only Woolley Rhinoceros Calf Ever Found: Woolley Mammoths of all ages have been found. Adult Woolley Rhinoceros finds are so rare they can be counted on one hand. This is the first baby
View Article"Like the Galapagos, Baikal is a closed ecosystem"
The Blue Pearl Of Siberia, Peter Matthiessen, 1991 Past eight in the evening on the last day of August, after a ten-hour climb, we haul ourselves to the high rim of the Baikal Canyon. From where we...
View ArticleAgafia Lykova, 70 year old hermit, hospitalized
According to the Guardian,"Agafia Lykova is the last remaining member of a deeply religious family that fled civilisation in 1936 and did not know about the second world war until geologists stumbled...
View ArticleSiberian farmyard rap goes viral! And the crowd goes wild!
Do you listen to a lot of hip-hop in in the Yakut language? Me either. But that changed when I happened upon the story of Ayal Adamov, Monty Python fan and student at Northeast Federal University,...
View ArticleOn thin ice
Every winter in Russia's east, the rivers that vein the enormous open spaces of siberia freeze solid. Photographer Amos Chappel joins one group of men who make a living on these frozen highways.
View Article...detected human presence in the Americas as early as 14,700 years ago.
How Did People Migrate to the Americas? Bison DNA Helps Chart the Way [The New York Times]"Two teams of scientists have succeeded in dating the opening of the gateway to America, only to disagree over...
View ArticleThe Mammoth Pirates
In Russia's Arctic north, a new kind of gold rush is under way: With the sale of elephant tusks under close scrutiny, "ethical ivory" from the extinct woolly mammoth is now feeding an insatiable market...
View ArticleIn the autumn they issued a sack of potatoes per person
Frozen Dreams: Russia's Arctic obsession (16 min.) is a Financial Times video feature about Russian Federation preparations to take advantage of the Northern Sea Route opening up along its Arctic...
View ArticleAt times they sounded like villains from a Michael Crichton novel.
Two Russian scientists are fighting to save the earth from climate change by restoring the Pleistocene grasslands in the Siberian Arctic. This includes re-establishing herds of bison, musk oxen, wild...
View ArticleLetter from Siberia
Through sands and mountains in search of a gulag ghost town: "We all know what Siberia means. It means Lake Baikal and the Altai Mountains. It means bears, long winters and vast expanses of taiga. All...
View Articlediamonds are forever?
The Nearly Mile-Wide Diamond Mine That Helped Build the Soviet Union. The Mirny Mine [previously] is so large it creates its own microclimate, and Mirny is/was pretty much a company town. Pictures of...
View ArticleA Mongol without a horse is like a bird without the wings
Horse culture in Mongolia is extensive, but much of its history is not well known. Take, for example, the intricately carved deer stone pillars that are often accompanied by horse skulls and few other...
View ArticleRefugees Are Welcome Here
The Story of Seven-Hundred Polish Children(1966) (18'05, Black & White)This 1966 documentary tells the story of 733 Polish children who were adopted by New Zealand in 1944 as WWII refugees. Moving...
View ArticleSiberia Siberian Cats
A farm for Siberian cats, with them floofed out against the snow. Photographs by the farm owner. Magnificent beasties.
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Sounds of Siberia - "How Novosibirsk's Shalash record label created a beautiful audio world"Seven Sleepers by you c and ForesteppekifaruSun Suites For a Rising MoonPt. 1Small Hours by Kirill Mazhai,...
View Article"A horse is a horse, of course, of course,"
The foal that came in from the cold after 40,000 years [The Siberian Times]"This is the firstpictureof anancient foal dug out of the permafrost in the Batagai depression - also known as the 'Mouth of...
View ArticleSmall, fluffy and very discreet
One day Vadim Kirilyuk, director of the Daursky Biosphere Reserve in Russia, found a manul kitten in a rusty train carriage. The kitten had been abandoned by its mother, so he did the only right thing...
View ArticleMammoth tusk gold rush
The climate crisis has sparked a Siberian mammoth tusk gold rush."The Arctic permafrost is thawing, revealing millions of buried mammoth skeletons. But the rush for mammoth ivory could put elephants in...
View Articlemight have been a very late ice-age wolf
Doggone it! How an 18,000-year-old puppy could change everything we know about dogs [The Guardian] Name: Dogor. Appearance: Sharp teeth, soft nose, fluffy all over, cute as hell. Age: 18,000 years and...
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