Posted by WW [WW] on April 01, 1999 at 20:16:38 {feW1wc1uNQOfSZqlzZ0Um1EPSMpKF.}:
AF,
How does one explain these TROPICAL evidences, fruit trees? Tigers? in 30 below Siberia and Alaska?
More "grey areas" on mammoth finds:
Nearby Plants and Animals. The easiest and most accurate way to determine an extinct
animal or plant's environment is to
identify familiar animals and plants buried nearby. For the mammoth this includes rhinoceroses, tigers, bison, horses, antelope, a
90-foot-tall fruit tree,42 and temperate species of grasses. All
live in warm climates. Some frozen remains are of burrowing
animals, such as voles, who would not burrow in rock-hard permafrost. Even larvae of the warble fly have been found in a
frozen mammoth's intestine�larvae identical to those
in tropical elephants today.43 No one argues that the animals and plants
buried near the mammoths were adapted to the Arctic. Why then do so for the mammoths?
Sudden Freezing and Rapid Burial. Before examining other facts, we can see
three curious problems. First, northern Siberia
today is cold, dry, and desolate. How could thousands, if not millions, of mammoths and many other animals feed themselves?
Apparently their surroundings were more temperate and moist.
If so, why did the climate change?
Have you not done all of your research?
WW