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To: Verginius Rufus; SunkenCiv; Red Badger

I read that there were some smaller varieties of Mammoth that lived on a small North American Arctic island as recently as 4,000 years ago. A last remainder of the species that had been likely mostly killed off by meteor strike(s) around 13,000 years ago, with the few remainders killed by hungry human and animal survivors. This remainder no doubt evolved from a few survivors of the meteor by being isolated from large predators and smaller offspring surviving better given the limited food supply. I wonder if polar bears got the last survivors, or if wandering Esquimoes finally killed them.

I think I saw reports that Flores also had small elephants at one time. A lot changed when all that water stored in Ice Age glaciers melted raising world sea levels by 400 feet, and shrinking many land areas. I am glad scientists are finally recognizing that there may be hidden human settlements now lying undiscovered below our current sea levels.


63 posted on 08/09/2026 8:07:52 AM PDT by gleeaikin (Question Authority: report facts and post their 'links" in your messages.I)
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To: gleeaikin

Cave divers in Florida have found remnants of mammoth bones in some our numerous limestone caves.......


64 posted on 08/09/2026 8:24:42 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: gleeaikin
I think the last mammoths were on Wrangel Island which is north of the easternmost part of Siberia (straddling 180 degrees east or west of Greenwich, take your pick).

Moundsville, WV, has a little museum with a mammoth skeleton on display. Those creatures were huge.

71 posted on 08/09/2026 2:04:08 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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