article_snippet.sent: The last of The last mammoths (shown in the reconstruction above) were isolated on Wrangel Island for around 5,000 years, forcing The last mammoths to inbreed as The last mammoths population dwindled until disappering 4,500 years ago .
article_snippet.sent: Researchers have concluded that the creatures clung on in just a tiny pocket of Wrangel Island, on an island that appears to have become cut off from the mainland.
article_snippet.sent: the researchers behind the genetic analysis found that the mammoths on Wrangel Island had been isolated for at least 5,000 years, eking out a meager existence there before dying out 4,500 years ago.
article_snippet.sent: This is likely due to the small number of mammoths that managed to survive on Wrangel Island during the last 5,000 years of the species’ existence.
article_snippet.sent: Mammoths are thought to have evolved around 400,000 years ago in eastern Asia and is a close relative to the Asian elephant.
article_snippet.sent: Researchers believe the mammoths in Oimyakon and Wrangel separated around 50,000 years.
article_snippet.sent: Researchers studied mammoth remains found at Oimyakon in Siberia and Wrangel Island (shown above)
article_snippet.sent: This mammoth tusk on Wrangel Island in Russia belonged to one of the last  mammoths before This mammoth tusk on Wrangel Island in Russia died out .
highlights_snippet.sent: The last mammoths died out on Wrangel Island around 4,500 years ago .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Isolated on Wrangel Island for around 5,000 years The last mammoths became inbred .
  