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New research builds on evidence that the last mammoths on Wrangel Island suffered from a variety of genetic defects. This map may only be used in news stories discussing the research in the related ...

“For more than 100 years, Russia has illegally occupied Wrangel Island, an American-claimed island in the Arctic, and has now fortified it with a military base…Russia’s Ushakovskoye facility on ...

The United States has a claim on a remote island that has been in Moscow's hands for nearly a century and where Russia reportedly wants to stage war games, a former U.S. Arctic commissioner has told ...

Doubtful Village, Wrangel Island, Chuckchi Sea, Russian Far East, Unesco World Heritage Site. This is Wrangel Island, a small island to the north of Eastern Russia that was the last home to living ...

Ten thousand years ago, as the Pleistocene ended and the Holocene began, sea levels rose and trapped a small group of woolly mammoths — possibly as few as eight — on Wrangel Island off the Siberian ...

Tourists exploring remote Wrangel Island, in the Arctic Ocean, were astonished to spot more than 200 polar bears feeding peacefully on a whale carcass. The sight of so many large, white critters ...

In a remote, mist-wrapped island north of the eastern tip of Siberia, a small group of woolly mammoths became the last survivors of their once thriving species. They fell extinct 4,000 years ago, ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Some 4,000 years ago, a tiny population of woolly mammoths died out on Wrangel Island, a remote Arctic refuge off the coast of Siberia. They may have been the last of their kind ...

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