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29/06/1994 Near-complete pygmy mammoth skeleton is found

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How this remote national park made a mammoth discovery

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The last of the mammoths | Natural History Museum

According to the radiocarbon dating, the skeleton was 13 000 years old. It contained 90 percent of bones. It was 1.7 meters tall, and weighed about 760 kilograms. The species is an interesting case of a natural phenomenon called insular dwarfism – reduction in size of large animals over a number of generations when their population's range is limited to a small environment, primarily islands.