That's for sure, and all over Siberia too. I knew about the mammoths, but not about the Smilodons.
Any links on that?
Based on the absence of putrification on the mammoths, and the particular species of plants found on their molars, the mammoths died in the Spring, and went from 60 or 70 degrees to over 100 below zero in the space of a few hours.
Most of my friends down here are in the Tar Pit.
Not important enough to make the World Wide Web as far as I can tell. I believe the Univ of Alaska Museum has a specimen or two. The smilodonts here were probably scrawny, subsisting on rabbits and voles. Interior Alaska was ice-free during the last ice-age, grassy, scrub spruce trees, much like now. But something definitely happened suddenly. Sometimes along a freshcut riverbank a muskox will emerge frozen in place in the muck, hide, flesh, and all, standing on his feet.