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“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…Russia’s Ushakovskoye facility on ...

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 related ...

The last mammoths to stomp on Earth lived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean. This isolated population lived for thousands of years after most mammoths were gone, but when extinction finally came, ...