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by runesofdoom 1207 days ago
The isolated mammoth population on Wrangel Island in the Arctic lasted until ~2000BC. [1] They died out before humans arrived at their island, possibly driven extinct by 'genomic meltdown'.[2]

[1]https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027737911...

[2]https://www.science.org/content/article/last-lonely-woolly-m...