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St. Paul, one of the five islands in the Bering Sea Pribilofs, was home to mammoths that survived the extinctions that wiped out mainland and other Bering Sea island mammoth populations.
My interpretation: Man caused the extinction of the mammoth. These mammoths were on an island, protected from man, but eventually succumbed.
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 still can't figure out how species began as a single-mated pair and then thousands of generations later succumbed to in-breeding pressures.
Does anyone have a pic of the Mammoth found in Siberia a couple of years back?
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