The mysterious crater in Siberia that’s five miles wide, has a 2,000ft-high ridge and contains so many precious metals it’s known as ‘treasure mountain’ The geological wonder – the Kondyor Massif – is the result of a little-understood surge of volcanic rock This volcanic rock pushed up through 5,000 miles of mantle a billion years or … Read more
7 Events: From Sandi Toksvig’s tour to Hugh Laurie in Avenue 5 on TV and the Russian State Ballet Of Siberia, Event picks the top things to do this week By Keeba Roy for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:01 GMT, 18 January 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 18 January 2020 The Comedy Show: Sandi … Read more
A frozen bird was so well preserved that fossil hunters thought that it had ‘died yesterday’ has turned out to be 46,000 years old, from the middle of the last ice age. The specimen — an ancestor of the modern horned lark — was found preserved in permafrost in a mine tunnel near the village … Read more