The pygmy mammoth or Channel Islands mammoth (Mammuthus exilis) is an extinct species of dwarf mammoth native to the northern Channel Islands off the coast...

California once supported the pygmy mammoth, a dwarf species descended from Columbian mammoths, while the woolly mammoths that existed on Wrangel Island...

hybridisation with the woolly mammoth lineage. The Columbian mammoth was among the last mammoth species, and the pygmy mammoths evolved from them on the Channel...

to sometime around 57–29,000 years ago. The youngest records of the pygmy mammoth (Mammuthus exillis) date to around 13,000 years ago, coinciding with...

live on the islands. During the Late Pleistocene a dwarf mammoth species, the pygmy mammoth inhabited the northern Channel Islands, before becoming extinct...

the woolly mammoth, which had twenty six ridges. The Cretan pygmy mammoth (M. creticus) and M. lamarmorai are the only known dwarf mammoths on the islands...

while dwarf mammoths are known to have lived in Sardinia. The Columbian mammoth colonised the Channel Islands and evolved into the pygmy mammoth. This species...

Retrieved June 15, 2018. "The Pygmy Mammoth (U.S. National Park Service)". Flightless ducks, giant mice and pygmy mammoths: Late Quaternary extinctions...

Cuvieronius (H) Mammoth (Mammuthus) spp. Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) (H) Pygmy mammoth (Mammuthus exilis) (H) Woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius)...

that Chumash peoples carried the initial cones in their Tomols. The pygmy mammoth, an extinct, endemic species, were capable swimmers able to cross the...

to each other as Santa Rosae. The Pleistocene mammoths swam to Santa Rosae. However, the pygmy mammoth underwent dwarfing as the Channel Islands became...

available in the environment. For example, it is known that pygmy mammoths evolved from normal mammoths on small islands. Similar evolutionary paths have been...

The pygmy mammoth is an example of insular dwarfism, a case of Foster's rule, its unusually small body size an adaptation to the limited resources of...

Science 441:1181-1185. "The Pygmy Mammoth (U.S. National Park Service)". Flightless ducks, giant mice and pygmy mammoths: Late Quaternary extinctions...

reveal new information on pygmy mammoths" Ventura County Star Rocha, Veronica (September 16, 2016). "Well-preserved mammoth skull unearthed on Channel...

Mammuthus creticus, or the Cretan dwarf mammoth, is an extinct species of dwarf mammoth endemic to Crete sometime during the Early Pleistocene to early...

between Santa Rosae and the mainland. Santa Rosae had a population of pygmy mammoths (Mammuthus exilis), which became extinct roughly 13,000 years ago. On...

68, 1. Graham, R.W. et al. (2016). Timing and causes of mid-Holocene mammoth extinction on St. Paul Island, Alaska. Proceedings of the National Academy...

lay about 5 miles (4 nmi; 8 km) off the California coast. Fossils of pygmy mammoths from the Late Pleistocene period 13,000 years ago have been found on...

Hydrodamalis gigas (E) EX Columbian mammoth, Mammuthus columbi (E) Pygmy mammoth, Mammuthus exilis (E) Woolly mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius (E) American...

statue of a war elephant, probably the North African elephant. A Malagasy pygmy hippopotamus skeleton compared to a common hippopotamus skull. A skeleton...

Clemente Bewick's wren (Thryomane bewickii leucophrys), extinct 1927 Pygmy mammoth (Mammuthus exilis), prehistoric Giant deer mouse (Peromyscus nesodytes)...

Columbian and Pygmy mammoths, and the American mastodon. The mastodons all became extinct at the end of the Pleistocene epoch, as did the mammoths of North...

inhabited by Pygmy mammoths, which it is supposed the Arlington Man's people hunted, because at the same time full-sized Columbian mammoths were being hunted...

island species such as the Malagasy hippopotamus, Komodo dragon, or pygmy mammoths. Although, the giant tortoises of the Galápagos Islands and the Seychelles...

8 "Mammoths!" 2 December 1995 (1995-12-02) This episode explores Mammoths. Animals Columbian mammoth Miocene elephants Pygmy mammoth Woolly mammoth Clovis...

Reconstructive illustration of the skeleton of a Mammuthus exilis, or pygmy mammoth...

to explore San Miguel Island for fossil remains of the prehistoric pygmy mammoth. Later in the day he separated from his party to search for specimens...

that they are two distinct species. The taxonomic status of the African pygmy elephant (Loxodonta pumilio) was uncertain for a long time. Phylogenetic...

from Dmanisi in Georgia with cut marks found on the bones of the extinct mammoth species Mammuthus meridionalis, which dates to around 1.8 million years...