EP, List,
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It was assumed that Wrangell Island mammoths ranged
from 180-230 cm in shoulder height and were for a time
considered "dwarf mammoths". However this classification
has been re-evaluated and since the Second International
Mammoth Conference in 1999, these mammoths are no
longer considered to be true "dwarf mammoths"
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_elephant
Eight fee high at the shoulder is a little high for a "dwarf"
or for a large dog. I don't want to meet a Weimaraner
that's eight feet high, ya know?
So, instead of being the World's Tallest Midget, they've
decided it's the World's Smallest Giant. The California
Channel Island mammoths were 4-5 feet at the shoulder
and the Mediterranean Dwarf mammoths even smaller.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "E.P. Grondine" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 9:38 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] What killed off the Mammoth?
Hi Paul -
The answer is the same thing that killed off many megafuana
intercontinentally, instantaneously, and simlutaneously: global
climate collapse, i.l., "nucelar winter".
Now they are two causes of global dust loading, one of which is
volcanic eruption, the other impact. Since we have no evidence of
volcanic eruption, we are left with impact.
PS- Sterling, Wrangle Island mammoth were already the size of large
dogs, so small as to constitute a different species, using the old
definition based on ability to interbreed.
EP
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