Another unusually harsh winter in Mongolia that's decimating livestock and sending temperatures to minus 56 degrees Celsius (minus 70 Fahrenheit) may create a humanitarian crisis, with worse ...

Of extinct Ice Age animals, woolly mammoths are probably one of the most famous. But if they were still around, then our ...

Encounters like this are becoming more frequent. Students make shocking discovery after spotting distressed bird in tree: 'We ...

History shows that linguistics evolve in unpredictable ways — and that the supremacy of English is not guaranteed.

In a new archeological dig, researchers have excavated parts of the Medieval Wall System (MWS), a network of walls and stretches that stretched for 4,000 kilometres (2,485 miles) across parts of ...

I n May 2015, a wave of death swept over rural Kazakhstan. In the space of just a few weeks, some 200,000 saiga antelopes ...

Kazakhstan said Wednesday it will authorize the hunting of saiga antelopes, once an endangered species that the government ...

Archaeologists have excavated a medieval frontier garrison in Mongolia, suggesting some monumental walls on the Eurasian ...

How a Bold Russian Experiment Aims to Revive the Ice Age and Save the Planet. Discover the Science, Vision, and Controversy ...

Across the icy edges of Earth’s northern and southern reaches, life has adapted to thrive in some of the harshest conditions.

The cave’s name, Natural Trap, is literal: Over the past 150,000 years, countless animals have fallen into it. When approached from the relatively flat plain to the east, the pit appears ...

This undated photo shows ancient rock paintings in the northern region of Sayram Lake in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur ...