When the St. Paul mammoths died off, the population on the mainland had already been extinct for several thousand years, so the title is true, albeit somewhat t

When the St. Paul mammoths died off, the population on the mainland had already been extinct for several thousand years, so the title is true, albeit somewhat trivially. (There was also a contemporary population on Wrangel Island that lasted another thousand years or so, though they were likely hunted to extinction).