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 ...

The Wrangel Island nature reserve is home to almost 170 bird species, which make nests there. In the autumn of 2019, the experts and volunteers began to restore a house in the Popov Lagoon ...

On Wrangel Island, mammoths adapted to the limited resources ... One possibility is an infectious disease, potentially brought by birds, which might have exploited the reduced immune system ...

The wilderness of Wrangel Island lies about 100 miles north of the Siberian mainland high in the Arctic Ocean. A Russian nature reserve, Wrangel was the home of the last woolly mammoths to have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...