The Altai mountains in southern Siberia form the major mountain range in the western Siberia biogeographic region and provide the source of its greatest rivers – the Ob and the Irtysh. Three separate ...

Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered hominin group (the Denisovans) that interbred with modern day ...

What it is: An ornamental plush figurine of a swan made from reindeer felt and filled with reindeer wool Where it is from: ...

Breathtaking views across the Altai mountains in Siberia: Klaus Gruber and Michael Sinn climbing up the South Face of Aktru Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, trekking, via ...

Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered 'hominin' group (the Denisovans) that interbred with modern day humans passed on some of their genes via multiple, distinct interbreeding ...

A few months later, analysis of a genome sequenced from a finger bone excavated in the Denisova cave in the Altai mountains in Siberia revealed that this bone fragment was from a newly discovered ...

This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the Altay Mountains of southern Siberia, some 200 miles from where Russia touches Mongolia, China, and Kazakhstan ...