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Originally Posted by Ohio
These are the kinds of "assumptions" that sane folks scoff at. The other day they found frozen hikers that went missing 30 years ago. Food in their bellies too? Shall we conclude that the Ice Age predicted in the late 60's got them?
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This kind of response is what makes scientists cringe at the relative stupidity of the average american.
Let's see:
1. Wooly Mammoth weighs 6 tons, the hikers weigh less than 2% of that weight.
2. We would expect the food in the hikers belly was carried in, whereas to our understanding the Wooly Mammoth did not have backpacks, nor did they have refrigeration or the technology to freeze dry their food.
So if we find food in the belly of a Wooly Mammoth we understand they ate it in the last two days and hence found it available in the wild in the last two days. Yet the temperature necessary to freeze a Wooly Mammoth solid before carnivores and scavengers could feed on it would be what? 20 below 0? More? According to experts they predict 150 degrees below 0. And not for just two or three days. A Wooly Mammoth is adapted to living in a very cold environment, perhaps 20 below 0 for a week is not enough to kill it. Also, even if you killed it, if it wasn't buried in snow and ice it would have been scavenged as soon as it thawed out in the spring.
So this Mammoth is evidence of an incredibly rapid drop in temperature where a green field became transformed into a frozen land buried in snow almost overnight.
However, to my knowledge this Mammoth is not considered evidence of a coming ice age, but rather that we can get these dramatically powerful systems similar to a tornado, except one that brings cold air down from the stratosphere, rather than a tornado which is lifting warm air up.
Over time, various clues about the environment at the time of their death have been discovered and studied. Scientists found partially preserved stomach vegetation in some of the carcasses and so could identify the woolly mammoth’s last meal. Solving one mystery just leads to another. They wondered how the stomach contents remained half decayed while the animals froze? This is a problem since it takes a long time to freeze an animal as large as an elephant. A quick freeze came to mind. Birds Eye Frozen Foods Company ran the calculations and came up with a staggering -150°F (-100°C). Once again, the scientists were puzzled. How could such temperatures be reached on earth, especially when apparently they were in a fairly temperate environment before the quick freeze?
Many theories have been postulated. One of the most popular is that the hairy elephants were peacefully grazing on grass and buttercups and were suddenly struck by a huge freezing storm blowing from the Arctic Ocean. Millions of them froze instantly. This kind of quick freeze has never been observed, so some special and imaginative ideas have been proposed. One question seems to always lead to another. This story is based on the Beresovka mammoth that was excavated and shipped back to St. Petersburg, Russia, overland during a heroic expedition led by Otto Herz and E. Pfizenmayer. The expedition started in the late spring of 1901, and ended on February 18, 1902. To transport the mammoth flesh, they had to travel 3,700 miles (6,000 km) by sled during a bitterly cold Siberian fall and winter.2 https://answersingenesis.org/extinct...es-in-siberia/