The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine in
the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West,
Simon Warwick-Smith
Posted on 11/19/2004 7:35:37 PM PST by satchmodog9
Who said those bones were inside a living creature when the glacier scooped them up?
No one.
All I'm saying is the standard models of biology, geography and climatology descibing some area of the vast northern wilderness do not seem to add up.
And I would think if this was simple glacial moraine type material, this would have been pointed out long ago. And I have never heard anyone proposing that as the sole explanation.
There are still islands in northern Russia that have tens, if not hundreds of thousands of mammoth tusks lying around. So whatever gives, it seems to not just be a couple thousand years where things gradually warmed up.
And alot of these areas - even now, not in an ice age climate, would be hard pressed to provide enough for a meal for you or I, not to mention a few starving, po'd mammoths.
I hope they clone him so my Fluffy can have some company.
She needs a playmate. Of course, then I will have to get another saddle, and a much bigger mammoth kibble bowl.
I built a giant play keyboard out of cinderblocks, and am teaching her to type. This training cuts into my Official Yo-Yo Practice....but I need time for the swelling to go down anyway.
Actually, mammoths were about the size of the modern Asian elephant (to which they were closely related*). The consumption figures for Asian elephants can be used pretty much as-is for mammoths.
*Asian elephants are more closely related to mammoths than to African elephants. There's a whole lot of good information on the critters at Wikipedia.
There's a precedent for eating mastadon meat:
http://www.vegalleries.com/hbltd/4ed.jpg
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine in
the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West,
Simon Warwick-Smith
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