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How did woolly mammoths go extinct? One study has an answer
The study focused on Wrangel Island, a small island off the ... Dalén pointed to some theories about the island's plant diversity, and that the mammoths were safe from larger predators and ...
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A new study reveals how the last woolly mammoths died out 4,000 years ago. That's after the Egyptians had built the pyramids.
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 ...
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Mammoths of Wrangel Island: Genetic resilience but sudden demise
10,000 years ago, on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, a unique population of mammoths began to form. Scientists have published their findings in the journal "Cell" and speculate on how ...
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Pacific Fleet’s ecology unit to continue Wrangel Island cleanup
TASS, July 12. The Pacific Fleet’s ecology unit will shortly begin cleanup and soil revegetation works on the Wrangel Island, the fleet’s press service reported. "More than 50 people have been ...
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Military ecology unit begins cleanup on Wrangel Island
TASS, August 22. The Eastern Military District’s ecology unit began cleaning the Wrangel Island from scrap metal, the military district’s press service reported on Monday. "The united ecology ...
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Russian Refuge
Because the Corwin party was the first to plant a flag on Wrangel, certain jingoistic groups in the United States have insisted the island is rightfully American soil. One Tea Party blogger last ...