Editing Dwarf elephant (section)

==The Channel Islands of California==
[[File:M._exilis_skeletal.png|thumb|Skeletal restoration of the [[pygmy mammoth]] (''Mammuthus exilis'') showing size compared to a human]]
A population of the [[Mammoth|Columbian mammoth]] (''Mammuthus columbi'') arrived on the northern [[Channel Islands of California]] during the late Middle Pleistocene, around 250-150,000 years ago, giving rise to a dwarfed species, the [[pygmy mammoth]] (''Mammuthus exilis''). Channel Islands mammoths ranged from {{convert|150|–|190|cm|abbr=on}} in shoulder height. These mammoths became extinct around 13,000 years ago, around the time of arrival of modern humans to the islands.<ref name=":03">{{Cite journal |last1=Muhs |first1=Daniel R. |last2=Simmons |first2=Kathleen R. |last3=Groves |first3=Lindsey T. |last4=McGeehin |first4=John P. |last5=Randall Schumann |first5=R. |last6=Agenbroad |first6=Larry D. |date=May 2015 |title=Late Quaternary sea-level history and the antiquity of mammoths ( Mammuthus exilis and Mammuthus columbi ), Channel Islands National Park, California, USA |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S003358940000096X/type/journal_article |journal=Quaternary Research |language=en |volume=83 |issue=3 |pages=502–521 |bibcode=2015QuRes..83..502M |doi=10.1016/j.yqres.2015.03.001 |issn=0033-5894|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name=":15">{{Cite journal |last1=Semprebon |first1=Gina M. |last2=Rivals |first2=Florent |last3=Fahlke |first3=Julia M. |last4=Sanders |first4=William J. |last5=Lister |first5=Adrian M. |last6=Göhlich |first6=Ursula B. |date=June 2016 |title=Dietary reconstruction of pygmy mammoths from Santa Rosa Island of California |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1040618215014020 |journal=Quaternary International |language=en |volume=406 |pages=123–136 |bibcode=2016QuInt.406..123S |doi=10.1016/j.quaint.2015.10.120|url-access=subscription }}</ref>