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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Most mammoth populations had died out by around 10,000 years ago although a small population of 500-1000 woolly mammoths lived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic until as recently as 1650 BC.

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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Deadly landslides are increasing around the world. But in parts of Alaska, maps of the hazards remain controversial.

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Participants at the ceremony taking down the Three-Frog Totem on Wrangell's Shakes Island held cedar branches to dispel negativity as the Naanyaa.aayí and Kiks.adi took turns singing songs and ...