Mammoths stranded on Bering Sea island delayed extinction

University of Alaska Fairbanks ^ | 16-Jun-2004 | Contact: Marie Gilbert

[Defiant]

That was in the Channel Islands, off the coast of Santa Barbara.

[Mike Darancette]

The individual mammoths on the island became smaller in stature before finally going extinct.

I believe the same thing happened on Islands off of the coast of California.

[VeritatisSplendor]

Bad math. A species may have a founding individual who is an ancestor of every member of the species, but not necessarily a "founding pair" who are the ONLY ancestors of the species alive at the time. The founding individual may carry a mutation characteristic to the new species, which every member of the species has, but MANY other individuals alive at the time of the founding individual could still contribute to the gene pool of the species. That is because the SPECIATION (reproductive isolation from the predecessor species) doesn't occur at the time of the founding individual, but later.

[Old Professer]

There's got to be one turtle on the bottom.

[Old Professer]

That is because the SPECIATION (reproductive isolation from the predecessor species) doesn't occur at the time of the founding individual, but later.

Simple tautology by way of deduction.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Fred Nerks]

Fossil tusks of the mammoth - an extinct elephant - were found in northern Siberia and brought southward to markets at a very early time, possibly in the days of Pliny in the first century of the present era. The Chinese excelled in working delicate designs in the ivory, much of which they obtained from the north...

High in the north above Siberia, six hundred miles inside the Polar Circle, in the Arctic Ocean lie the Liakhov Islands. Liakhov was a hunter who, in the days of Catherine II, ventured to these islands and brought back the report that they abounded in mammoths' bones.

"Such was the enormous quantity of mammoths' remains that it seemed...that the island was actually composed of the bones and tusks of elephants, cemented together by icy sand."

The New Siberian Islands, discovered in 1805 and 1806, as well as the islands of Stolbovoi and Belkov to the west, present the same picture. "The soil of these desolate islands is absolutely packed full of the bones of elephants and rhinoceroses in astonishing numbers. These island were full of mammoth bones..."

quotes from "The Ivory Islands in the Arctic Ocean"
Journal of the Philosophical Society of Great Britain, XII (1910)

from Earth In Upheaval. by Immanuel Velikovsky.

(The polar islands are frozen for ten months of the year. What did the mammoth and the rhino's eat before they decided to lie down and die, I wonder?)

[SunkenCiv]

The polar islands are frozen for ten months of the year. What did the mammoth and the rhino's eat before they decided to lie down and die, I wonder?

Buttercups. ;')