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To: ckilmer

I remember reading of an isolated population of mammoths on an island off Siberia, surviving well after the mainland population became extinct. The individual mammoths on the island became smaller in stature before finally going extinct.


5 posted on 06/17/2004 8:14:30 PM PDT by edwin hubble
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To: edwin hubble

Atkins!


8 posted on 06/17/2004 8:21:02 PM PDT by Old Professer (lust; pure, visceral groin-grinding, sweat-popping, heart-pounding staccato bursts of shooting stars)
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To: edwin hubble

It was on Wrangel Island.


9 posted on 06/17/2004 8:22:13 PM PDT by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: edwin hubble
"I remember reading of an isolated population of mammoths on an island off Siberia, surviving well after the mainland population became extinct. The individual mammoths on the island became smaller in stature before finally going extinct."

I remember read that also.

11 posted on 06/17/2004 8:28:11 PM PDT by blam
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To: edwin hubble

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


21 posted on 06/17/2004 10:31:25 PM PDT by Defiant (Moore-On: That throbbing anticipation felt by a liberal hoping for America's defeat.)
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To: edwin hubble
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.

22 posted on 06/17/2004 10:40:39 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.)
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