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Related: About this forumSmallest mammoths found on Crete
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18003093http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/60108000/jpg/_60108444_mammuthus_creticu_type_specimen_2_-_copyright_natural_history_museum,_london-1.jpg
The researchers analysed teeth collected on the island
The smallest mammoth ever known to have existed roamed the island of Crete millions of years ago, researchers say.
Adults were roughly the size of a modern baby elephant, standing over a metre tall at the shoulders.
Remains were discovered more than a century ago, but scientists had debated whether the animal was a mammoth or an ancient elephant.
A new analysis of the animal's teeth suggests it falls closer to the mammoth lineage.
Palaeontologists Victoria Herridge and Adrian Lister, from London's Natural History Museum, report their findings in the Royal Society journal Proceedings B.
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Smallest mammoths found on Crete (Original Post)
xchrom
May 2012
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On the Road
(20,783 posts)1. About the Height of a Great Dane, Then
You could make a pet out of one of those things:
One question, though: did dwarf mammoths coexist wtih jumbo shrimp?
Scuba
(53,475 posts)2. Makes sense, it's a small island.
tclambert
(11,085 posts)3. Small mammoths? They're in the same aisle as jumbo shrimp.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)4. This mammoth is clearly not a very mammoth mammoth
as it is severely lacking in mammothness.