Why don’t you screw up your courage, and dare to ask the “obvious” question?
I was speaking of the general glib reporting of the era...but to me it was Noah’s flood where upon there was a pronounced super rapid cooling of the Atmosphere in very warm polar regions causing rapid freezing of any and all living things with subsequent rapid condensation and huge rains and flooding across the entire world in total. Northern clines might have had continued freezing and glaciation of flood waters left over. The flash frozen mammoths and other beasts would have been quickly buried by mud carried by floods which themselves were frozen and left for a time to thaw after the main rains had ceased. Though the ice receded very slowly over the northern sub arctic areas, the permafrost remained, keeping the mammoths preserved.
The flood of Noah’s day!