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 ...

10,000 years ago, on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, a unique population of mammoths began to emerge. Scientists ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Wrangel Island A survival game set in the Ice Age where man and animal collide, work together with others or attempt to survive alone in these frozen lands.

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 ...

Cut off from the rest of the world on Wrangel Island, located in the Arctic Ocean, the last remaining population of the mammoths hung on for some 7,000 years before eventually dying out.

Researchers think one of these refuges, name Wrangel Island, became the last mammoth hold-out; these tusked giants outlived their North American and European counterparts by some 7,000 years ...

TASS, May 15. Russian scientists will use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to watch polar bears on the Wrangel Island. UAVs will be bought during the current year, and scientists will begin using ...

Some have previously speculated that inbreeding snuffed out the Wrangel Island colony. But new research suggests otherwise.

The Wrangel Island is not permanently populated, and the temporary population are meteorologists, staff of the nature reserve and the military TASS, October 21. The ecology platoon collected on ...