[Verginius Rufus]

Wrangel Island is off the north coast of Siberia, very far east--further east than some of the Aleutian Islands. I saw a program once about pygmy mammoths that survived there long after mammoths had become extinct elsewhere. I don't know if polar bears had anything to do with their demise.

[HenryLeeII]

Wrangel Island is off the north coast of Siberia, very far east--further east than some of the Aleutian Islands. I saw a program once about pygmy mammoths that survived there long after mammoths had become extinct elsewhere. I don't know if polar bears had anything to do with their demise.

Yes, as a matter of fact I saw a Bill Moyers special on PBS, and he showed how the polar bears developed industry on the island and became dependent on internal combustion engine vehicles, and the resulting global warming effect killed off the pygmy mammoths...