Topic: Altai

Anthropologists trace origins to region known as the...
Hunnu Coal Ltd. (HUN. AU) said Monday it has bought Rio Tinto PLC's (RIO) controlling 70% interest in the Altai Nuurs coal joint venture project in...

The land

The present relief of Mongolia is the result of geologically recent upheavals of the Alpine mountain-building period. The eastern part of Mongolia has a rolling topography of hilly steppe plains, supplanted in the extreme east by clusters of small, flat plains lying ...

Rare warm weather lands pink pelicans in Siberia

BARNAUL, Russia (Reuters Life!) - A flock of African pink pelicans en route home landed in Siberia on Tuesday, astounding local residents after Russia's abnormally warm weather threw them off course."I left home early in the morning and what a sight ...

Horse breed: Altai

Although as small as a pony, the Altai is a small yet strong horse. The Altai is named after its place of origin in the Altai Mountains of Siberia. Altai horses mostly comes in common solid colors of bay, dark bay, chestnut ...
Ancient DNA suggests that three species of ancient humans occupied Russia's Altai Mountains at about the same time.. Evolutionary geneticists Svante P??bo, Johannes Krause, and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, ground up a ...
The Republic is a vast mountainous area in the heart of Eurasia on the border of China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Russia. Technically it is home to the Altai people but these are a diverse group who overspill its borders. When the Russian ...
The altai mountain goat is a wool goat and is a native animal of the former USSR, which is now known simply as Russia. There is a mountain range named the Altai mountains which these goats are named after. *Altai mountain goats ...

5 Breathtaking Places in Siberia

Often connected with harsh, bitterly cold weather and cruelpunishments inflicted during communism very few people realize how much naturalbeauty is in Siberia, much of it practicallyuntouched by man. The Altai Mountains cross intoMongolia going across the GobiDesertand into China, and parts ofthe ...

Sexual dysfunction

There is a wealth of evidence that suggests that Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia, can be linked to a reduction in levels of sex hormones that comes with aging. Male sexual dysfunction with emphasis on the effects of ...