Have any of you heard of the pygmy mammoths that were the last to die out?

Question

I read this a few years ago. Supposedly they were isolated on an island and lived until about the time the Great Pyramid was built (2700 BC). They had down-sized because of the limited food on the island, being about the size of a buffalo.

Answer 1

In 1994, paleontologists made the remarkable discovery of a pygmy mammoth on Santa Rosa Island, the most complete collection of its kind in the world.

Found only on the California Channel Islands and nowhere else in the world, the pygmy mammoth was probably a small form of the Columbian mammoth found on the mainland. Pygmy mammoths varied from 4.5 to 7 feet high at the shoulders and may have weighed only about 2,000 pounds, compared to the 14-foot tall, 20,000 pound Columbian mammoth. In other respects, they were probably similar, with short fur, a typical mammoth body form, and a relatively large head.

Answer 2

Mammoths may also have survived into early civilization era on Arctic islands north of Russia; small ones, as is usual on islands.