I believe they have found carcasses pretty much intact.
Completely intact and in almost perfect condition with undigested food in the stomach. It would have to be frozen pretty quick to do that, and it is generally believed some were frozen standing up. They also apparently didn't expect it, they would have been frozen running from it rather than standing there munching out.
That's one of the strange facts lending credence to a worlwide catastrophe in that time period. Something like a huge meteor hits, creates a dust cloud large enough to blanket all or most of the planet, the sun is blotted out, the temperature drops drastically...
This is one of the theories for the disappearance of the legendary continent of Atlantis. Hundreds of smaller impact craters off the coast of South Carolina, and for miles inland, two huge holes each over 2 miles across in the ocean a couple of hundred miles offshore, corresponding evidence of a drastic lowering of the sea level such as in south America where a seaport village has been discovered up a cliff around 50 feet if I remember correctly with no means of access or reason to be there unless the sea level was much higher...the theory is that an asteroid 6 miles in diameter or so broke into two huge chunks and hundreds of smaller peices from the heat of friction in the atmosphere, created a seismic wave capable of wiping out large cities, the foundations of the continent were disrupted and Atlantis sunk into the ocean literally overnight.
This comes from a very interesting book I read called "The Secret of Atlantis" by Otto Muck, with a lot of research done into several scientific fields, including geology, meteorology (weather), oceanography, archaelolgy and a number of references from ancient literature, of course including a full interpretation of Plato's account into English. This is also the most believable book I've read on Atlantis, and the one based almost entirely on scientific evidence, cross referenced from several different fields.
Something like this could easily create such an atmospheric disturbance the resulting dust cloud would cover the entire planet. No sun, no heat, think about how quick a small normal cloud causes the temperature to drop 10 degrees or more in summer...blot out the sun overnight and how cold would it be by morning? Remember also the sun would not be still warming the planet on the "day" side, which helps keep us from all freezing even more during the winter months.
So, the Wooly Mammoth carcasses that have been found have always interested me, until I read the explanations in this book and a couple of others on similar subjects, it seemed incredible that an animal larger than an elephant or buffalo could be frozen solid so fast even the undigested food in its stomach was virtually intact thousands of years later. A similar catastrophe is one fo the theories fro the extinction of dinosaurs, but millions of years ago instead of thousands.
Is it possible? Who knows, but it's a complete dumbass that thinks with all the thousands of meteors, comets and asteroids out there one doesn't hit the earth now and then, just grab a pair of binoculars and take a look at the moon sometime and you can easily see how many times it has been hit. The smallest crater you can see is around 5 miles in diameter...by astronomical measure, we're extremely close to the moon, there's no way the moon could be hit that many times and this planet escape collision entirely. I'll have to look it up, was the Wooly Mammoth wiped out at the same time as the disappearance of Atlantis, around 10,000 years ago? I believe that's one of the things referred to in the same book.
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