Russian scientists discover intact Ice Age woolly rhino in Siberia

Russia arrests a Siberian cult leader who claims to be the reincarnation of Jesus along with his top aides, in an operation involving armed troops and aircraft.

Miners looking for gold in Colombia came across the fossils of a mastodon that disappeared at least 10,000 years ago, the regional environmental authority reports.

How did the wolf become a dog? What does domestication teach us about the evolution of species? In Siberia, a scientific experiment has been trying for 61 years to answer these questions by taming foxes.

New studies have found that water might be distributed across the lunar surface in more places and larger quantities than previously suspected. It could be useful for astronauts seeking refreshments or fuel in the future.

Paleontologists have found one of the best-preserved specimens of the Ice Age animal to date in Russia's extreme north. They dated the carcass as anywhere from 20,000-to 50,000-years-old.

Poaching figures dropped by a third in 2020, with South Africa's environmental ministry citing the coronavirus lockdown as a significant reason for this. The country is home to 80% of the world's rhinoceroses.

Star Wars fans in Russia have built a giant replica of a spaceship from the spinoff series "The Mandalorian" and installed it in a park in one of the world's coldest cities.

The fragments of the biblical texts are believed to have been stashed away in a cave during an armed Jewish uprising against Rome.

Emma, a five-year-old southern white rhino from a Taiwan zoo arrives in Japan, part of an attempt to widen the gene pool of Asia's captive-bred white rhinos. This is the first time Taiwan has sent a rhino overseas to breed. Emma's journey to find love was originally scheduled for March after she beat a herd of competitors for the chance to find a companion and breed. But complications caused by the pandemic pushed back her departure.

As wildfires sweep across the vast Siberian region of Yakutia, Yegor Zakharov and his team are racing to stop its smouldering forests from burning even more.

The Kruger National Park in South Africa is where most of the country's rhino are being slaughtered. Authorities are battling to protect the species from poaching gangs.

Russia's Yakutia region, which has a border with the Arctic Ocean and sits atop permafrost on a territory nearly five times the size of France, is a canary in the coal mine for the global climate crisis. And with this summer being Yakutia's driest in 150 years, according to local officials, the region became a tinderbox that has seen wildfires tear through more than 1.5 million hectares (3.7 million acres) of its swampy taiga forest.