>>1864196https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajpa.23150>A few splinters of boneSupposedly went extinct at the end of the Pleistocene ~11700 years ago.
Mammoths survived on Wrangel Island till what - 3500 years ago?
In regards to the argument of "we should be finding bones". An organism has a higher chance to win the lottery than to fossilize. The probability to find something fossilized (especially vertebrates) is again very slim.
As long as the remains are subjected to oxygen, microorganisms will do their part and most likely nothing will be left.
I am always reminded of the American cheetah when it comes to such things.
It went extinct at the end of the Pleistocene as well and wad only known from a few bone fragments till a more complete fossil was found.
Still there is evidence, that cheetahs migrated towards Asia (extinct there) and finally to Africa where they probably ended up as modern cheetahs.
Something similar happened to dromedars.
And with hominids - who knows. Time will tell.
(ngl some think American cheetahs and African cheetah diverged from a common ancestor, but I don't)
