Bears disembowel oil worker, store half-eaten body for later
An oil worker was disembowelled by hungry brown bears in a savage attack in Siberia. The unnamed man was overpowered, killed and partly eaten by the beasts between Novy Urengoy and the village of...
View ArticlePutin is behind mysterious glowing orbs spotted over Siberia
It appeared over the skies of Siberia on Friday. A deeply unsettling pale-blue glowing orb. Against a sparkling, star-filled backdrop washed with the green hues of the northern lights — it was a...
View ArticleRussian teenager attacks schoolmates with an ax
MOSCOW — Russian officials say a teenager armed with an ax has attacked fellow students at a school in southern Siberia, wounding five children and their teacher. Russia’s Investigative Committee said...
View Article18 killed in Siberian helicopter crash: Russian airline
MOSCOW — A Russian airline says one of its helicopters has crashed shortly after takeoff in Siberia, killing all 18 people aboard. The UTair airline, which operated the Mi-8 helicopter, said in a...
View ArticleMysterious furry sea ‘monster’ washes up on beach
Is it the remains of a woolly mammoth — or a decaying whale? Those were the questions on beachgoers’ minds as they gathered around a giant, hairy sea creature that was beached in Siberia. The...
View ArticleNeanderthal ‘love child’ discovery shows prehistoric interbreeding
BERLIN — Scientists say they’ve found the remains of a prehistoric female whose mother was a Neanderthal and whose father belonged to another extinct group of human relatives known as Denisovans. The...
View ArticleSiberian ‘unicorns’ roamed with humans nearly 35,000 years ago
Weighing in at a hefty 3.5-ton and with a fearsome horn on its head, it’s long been assumed the “Siberian unicorn” was wiped out more than 100,000 years ago. But cutting-edge research has shown the...
View Article‘Mammoth rush’ sparked in Siberia for frozen ivory tusks
The demand for ivory has sparked a “mammoth rush” in Siberia thanks to the discovery of preserved tusks and the increasing bans on international trade of elephant ivory. Over the last few years, ivory...
View ArticleChinese fossil sheds light on mysterious Neanderthal kin
Nearly 40 years after it was found by a monk in a Chinese cave, a fossilized chunk of jawbone has been revealed as coming from a mysterious relative of the Neanderthals.
View ArticleGiant wolf’s head found in permafrost may have been cut off by ancient hunters
Scientists are investigating whether a giant, 40,000-year-old wolf’s head found perfectly preserved beneath Siberian permafrost could have been chopped off by hunters. The severed head was found above...
View ArticlePassenger video shows deadly moment Russian jet crashes, bursts into flames
A passenger aboard a Russian airliner captured the horrifying moment the plane tried to make an emergency landing — but overshot the runway and burst into flames. Two people were killed — the captain...
View ArticleInstagrammers warned not to swim in toxic Siberian lake dubbed ‘Novosibirsk...
A turquoise-colored Siberian lake may be Insta-perfect — but it’s actually an artificial, toxic waste dump, and the company operating the plant is urging visitors not to go into the water. The lake,...
View ArticleTrump called Putin and offered to help with Siberian wildfires — only to get...
President Trump called Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Wednesday and offered to help tackle wildfires that have been raging through Russia’s Siberia, the Kremlin says. Putin’s office thanked Trump for...
View ArticleHuge explosions at Russian military base cause injuries, mass evacuation
A series of explosions at a military arms depot in Siberia on Monday left at least eight people injured and prompted the evacuation of about 11,000 nearby residents, according to reports. The blasts...
View ArticleRussia resumes sharing radiation data, but big questions remain
MOSCOW — Russia has resumed sharing data from radiation monitoring stations in Siberia after some were taken offline following a deadly explosion at a missile range, a nuclear weapons watchdog said...
View Article2,100-year-old ‘iPhone case’ found in depths of ocean
Even ancient societies didn’t want to pay for Apple Care! Archaeologists have pulled what looks like a jewel-studded iPhone case from the depths of the ocean in southern Siberia – a site known by some...
View ArticleRussian teacher in dying Siberian village only has one student left
SIBILYAKOVO, Russia – Uminur Kuchukova, 61, could have retired years ago, but she continues to teach at this dying Russian village’s once bustling school for the sake of its last pupil, a 9-year-old...
View ArticleSea ‘boiling’ with methane stuns scientists in Siberia
Scientists in Russia have discovered a strange “boiling” sea in the waters of the Eastern Arctic.
View ArticleRussian soldier opens fire in ‘nervous breakdown,’ kills 8 comrades
The Russian Defense Ministry says a soldier killed eight of his comrades and wounded two others in a shooting outburst at a base in Siberia.
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