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 ...

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 ...

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. Wrangel Island, a remote Arctic gem in ...

Located well above the Arctic Circle, the site includes the mountainous Wrangel Island (7,608 km2), Herald Island (11 km 2) and surrounding waters. Wrangel was not glaciated during the Quaternary Ice ...

Scientists now believe some of the last woolly mammoths on Earth may have died out due to a sudden event, a departure from previous hypotheses about their extinction. About 10,000 years ago, the last ...

Some of the last mammoths on Earth suffered from mutated genes that reduced fertility, caused diabetes, affected their development and even kept them from being able to smell flowers, according to a ...

The positions in the table below reflect the Wrangel Island State Nature Reserve's position overall, domestically, within their sector, and in various subject areas based on their Share. Each position ...