For example, it is known that pygmy mammoths evolved from normal mammoths on small islands.

Pygmy mammoths (Mammuthus exilis) have also been excavated there.

Some of these unique adaptations are reflected in charismatic island species such as the giant tortoise, Komodo dragon, or pygmy mammoths.

Selective forces on the Channel Islands resulted in smaller animals, forming a new species, the Pygmy Mammoth Mammuthus exilis.

Circa 9080 BCE - The Pygmy Mammoth survived on Santa Rosa Island until about this time.

Austin was having a weird dream in which a procession of pygmy mammoths paraded along the streets of a crystal city to the tune of "St. Louis Blues."

On July 21, 1932 Hoffmann joined a group of scientists on an expedition to California's Channel Islands to explore San Miguel Island for fossil remains of the prehistoric Pygmy Mammoth.

Flightless geese, giant mice and pygmy mammoths are extinct, while the island fox, spotted skunk, and munchkin dudleya (Dudleya gnoma) (one of the six endemic plant species on the island) still live there.

Santa Rosae is perhaps best known for having had a population of pygmy mammoths (Mammuthus exilis), which became extinct over 12,000 years ago, and for the 13,000-year-old skeleton of Arlington Springs Man, which are the oldest set of human remains yet found in North America.

Selective forces on the Channel Islands resulted in smaller animals, forming a new species, the Pygmy Mammoth Mammuthus exilis.

The pygmy mammoth or Channel Islands mammoth (Mammuthus exilis) is an extinct species of dwarf elephant descended from the Columbian mammoth (M. columbi).