On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession. With a stroke of a pen, Tsar Alexander II had ceded Alaska, his ...

Researcher Christopher J. Bae identified Homo juluensis, a new human species that coexisted with Denisovans in Asia. A University of Hawaiʻi researcher may have identified a new human species, Homo ...

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Discover Russia's rare and unique wildlife, including the only freshwater seals in the world, Arctic lemmings, and the ...

A film from the Sayano-Shushenski Nature Reserve in Siberia captures the rare moment when snow leopards make loud, almost frightening mating calls.