[orionblamblam]

> Immanuel Velikovshy thought otherwise.

Velikovsky was a goober. Ranks up there with Van Danniken.

> The mammoths became extinct when Siberia was suddenly thrust into the artic circle

Hogwash. Mammoths ranged over the entire northern hemisphere... Europe, Asia, North America. Last species of mammoth to go extinct only did so in the last 5000 or so years (a dwarf species on some island or other).

> Whatever killed mammoths must have happened suddenly.

Individuals, yes. Eat some daisies, go for a walk on a frozen lake, break through the ice, die and get frozen. Pretty simple, no need for Jupiter to spit out Venus as a comet to explain it.

[The Great Yazoo]

Eat some daisies, go for a walk on a frozen lake, break through the ice, die and get frozen.

Yes. Simple, except that:

as many as ten million mammoths are believed buried in permanently frozen Russian soil.

That's a lot of walking on frozen lakes, breaking through ice, dieing, and getting frozen!

[Judith Anne]

Individuals, yes. Eat some daisies, go for a walk on a frozen lake, break through the ice, die and get frozen. Pretty simple, no need for Jupiter to spit out Venus as a comet to explain it.

Amazing theory. Where do you get the daisies growing alongside a frozen lake? Just curious...