10,000 years ago, on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, a unique population of mammoths began to emerge. Scientists published their findings in the journal "Cell," speculating how these ...

Two years ago Russia sent three white men, three white women and 50 Eskimo families to bleak little Wrangel Island, disastrous site 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle. The people were called a ...

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 ...

John Muir, the first visitor to describe Wrangel Island to the world, waxed rhapsodic when he saw this vista in 1881. “This grand wilderness in its untouched freshness,” Muir called it ...

Well, although the Wrangel Island herd eventually died off, they made it another 6,000 years on their desolate island, ...

TASS, July 12. The Pacific Fleet’s ecology unit will shortly begin cleanup and soil revegetation works on the Wrangel Island, the fleet’s press service reported. "More than 50 people have been ...

TASS/. Researchers of the Wrangel Island nature reserve on Chukotka between the Chukchi Sea and East Siberian Sea opened another six months’ field season, during which they will observe the ...

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In late August 2019 we set off for the remote island of Wrangel in Russia’s north-eastern Arctic. The size of Crete, Wrangel is so cut off that the very last population of woolly mammoth ...

Unique bedrock formations, a thick layer of loose sediment, and a concentrated water drainage system flowing down from the ridgetop were three of the main ingredients that led to the ...

Wrangell police arrested 39-year-old Cooper Seimears, 29-year-old Jacob Marshall and his fiancee, 29-year-old McKenna Harding ...