[djf]

And a lot of those foods were temperate-climate plants.

Not stuff that might grow at the sub-zero temps it would take to freeze a mammoth whole.

If you had an animal that big, and you decided to freeze it on purpose, we’re talking about 20F-30F degrees below zero for an extended period. Perhaps up to a week or so.

Certainly not overnight or in 2 or 3 days...

[AGreatPer]

"Giant woolly mammoths have been extinct since the Earth's last Ice Age 1.8 million to around 11,500 years ago."

Ahhhh, that narrows it down quite a bit, give or take a million years.

[aruanan]

Certainly not overnight or in 2 or 3 days...

If they were found with food in their mouths (what I heard in pre-internet days was buttercups), whatever it was that killed them did so fairly quickly. If there was a sudden drop in temperature, even over the period of a couple of days, food in the mouth could still appear fairly fresh since it would freeze much sooner than the core of the body. Also, if what killed the mammoths and other large mammals was that super solar flare between 11-13k years ago, the radiation could have been sufficient (it was calculated as probably being on the order of several Sv/hour--I was going to link it, but that link is on the computer in the lab) to impede bacterial growth until everything was so solidly frozen that it was as good as being done almost instantaneously.

[Rebelbase]

"If you had an animal that big, and you decided to freeze it on purpose, we’re talking about 20F-30F degrees below zero for an extended period. Perhaps up to a week or so. Certainly not overnight or in 2 or 3 days..."

Indeed.