Eons
Season 3 · Episode 4
The Island of Shrinking Mammoths
5th February 2019
10 mins Season 3
Episode 4
The 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?
