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 ...

Major incidents were declared on Monday as flooding caused travel chaos across Britain, with heavy rain and snow closing ...

The Romans famously built a massive wall in northern England. Hadrian’s Wall has inspired countless myths and legends, ...

For their fans on social media, this ordinary Canadian-American couple show how to take a big swing and - with hard work and ...

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

Europe has been forced to wean itself off of cheap Russian gas since Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine almost three years ago.

Sean Cozart heard a tundra bean-goose was spotted in Baker County on Dec. 6, but he was taking finals at Brigham Young ...

A construction worker on a Russian island captured the horrific moment that a bear charged towards him before it killed three ...

50,000-year-old baby mammoth discovered in Siberia's permafrost Nicknamed Yana, it’s one of the best-preserved mammoth remains Found near Batagaika crater, the specimen includes head and trunk ...

in Russia's Siberia region. Nicknamed Yana, the female mammoth weighs more than 220 pounds and is 47 inches tall. Scientists believe that Yana was 1 year old when she died. Her remains are one of ...

MOSCOW. Dec 26 (Interfax) - Gazprom has supplied about 31 billion cubic meters of gas to China via the Power of Siberia gas pipeline in 2024, the Russian gas giant's CEO Alexei Miller said during a ...