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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 ...

Located in the Arctic Ocean, between the Chukchi Sea and the East Siberian Sea, Wrangel Island is a 7,600 km² enclave, equivalent in size to Crete. It is part of Russia’s Chukotka Autonomous District ...

“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 ...

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If something seems impossibly remote, you call it Siberia. And if Siberians want to make the analogy, they could call it Wrangel Island. About 90 miles off the coast of northeastern Siberia, the ...

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, ...

The last population of woolly mammoths appears to have died off after a "catastrophic" event, having survived in isolation in relatively stable environmental conditions for 7,000 years, a study has ...

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