“He pay us a visit last night.” Wrangel Island was declared a zapovednik—a federally managed nature sanctuary—in 1976, and it remains one of Russia’s coldest, remotest pieces of ...

isolated islands nestled between Russia and Alaska that were cut-off from the mainland by rising seas. Researchers think one of these refuges, name Wrangel Island, became the last mammoth hold-out ...

A military ecology unit of the north-eastern forces began cleaning the Wrangel Island, the Pacific Fleet’s press service reported on Monday. "An ecology unit of the forces in Russia’s north ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Enchanted by its rugged beauty, Sergey finds any excuse to return to Wrangel Island. With no supplies available ... determined to record the richness of Russia's wilderness. He is widely published, ...

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.

isolated islands nestled between Russia and Alaska that were cut-off from the mainland by rising seas. Researchers think one of these refuges, name Wrangel Island, became the last mammoth hold-out ...