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\nThe mammoths fossils found on the Channel Islands off the coast of southern California are much smaller than their relatives found on the mainland. They were so small that they came to be seen as their own species. How did they get...\nThe mammoths fossils found on the Channel Islands off the coast of southern California are much smaller than their relatives found on the mainland. They were so small that they came to be seen as their own species. How did they get there? And why were they so small?\n
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11:21
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12th - Higher Ed
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2019
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dinosaurs, fossils, california, predators, elephants, islands, smell, size, paleontology, john green, glaciers
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dinos, paleo, scishow, eons, pbs, pbs digital studios, hank green, complexly, natural history, channel islands, mammoth, columbian mammoths, pygmy mammoths, santa rosa island, robert stearns, tusk, pleistocene epoch, santarosae, foster’s rule, insular dwarfism, younger dryas, palaeoloxodon, isolated environments, dire wolves, santa rosa, sea levels, southern california, limited resources, island environment, smaller mammoths, mammoths, smaller, small, pleistocene, found, island, mainland, phenomenon, grasses, tooth, made, happened
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