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Mammuthus exilis of the Channel Islands 🐘🏝️

Meet the pygmy mammoth (Mammuthus exilis) — a real Ice Age elephant that shrank itself to survive. These little giants evolved from full-size Columbian mammoths after reaching California’s Channel Islands. Cut off from the mainland, with limited food and space, natural selection favored smaller bodies. Over just a few thousand years, adults became only about 5–6 feet tall at the shoulder — roughly pony-sized compared to their massive ancestors. They still kept all the classic mammoth features: l

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