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His mechanism for explaining the extinction of the woolly mammoth, supposedly living in a warm climate and then suddenly being quick frozen, is a catastrophic poleshift to a more vertical Earth axis (to warm the region up) and then back again to near the present 23½ degrees (to cool it down).
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www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v14/i3/mammoth.asp
www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v14/i3/mammoth.asp
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All we have are fossils of mammoth bones with tool marks on them. That does not mean they were killed; they could have been scavenged from dead or nearly dead animals. Look for non-human causes of their extinction.
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www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/11/pleistocene-megafaun...
www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/11/pleistocene-megafauna-extinctions/
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Changes in climate may have first shrunk the woolly mammoth's habitat, but humans delivered the final blow to the species, a new study shows. ... Ancient climate change cornered the woolly mammoth into a shrinking habitat, but humans delivered the final blow by hunting the species into extinction, a new study suggests.
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news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080401-mammoth...
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080401-mammoth-extinction.html
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This plant exodus provided more food sources for horses, mammoths, bison, and elks living in the far north, he suggests. (See a classic photo of a mammoth find, circa 1900.)
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news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/ice-age.html
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Three species of mammoths (genus Mammuthus) lived on the mainland of the United States at the end of the last Ice Age. These were the Columbian mammoth (M. columbi), Jefferson's mammoth (M. jeffersonii), and the woolly mammoth (M. primigenius). ... Find out more about this extinction.
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www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/larson/mammuthus.html
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A distant supernova that exploded 41,000 years ago may have led to the extinction of the mammoth, according to research that will be presented tomorrow (Sept. 24) by nuclear scientist Richard Firestone of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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www.physorg.com/news6734.html
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No single theory of the cause of the mammoth extinction seems to fit all the known facts. Blaming the extinction on over-hunting by humans seems plausible in the Americas, Cohen points out, but it doesn't explain what happened to mammoths on other continents.
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www.outriderbooks.com/ot10.html
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PLoS Biology is an open access journal that has just published a paper which investigates woolly mammoth extinction. ... This is what got other people to think that the extinction of the woolly mammoth was due to the effects of human population expansion.
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anthropology.net/2008/03/31/what-was-the-cause-of-the-w...
anthropology.net/2008/03/31/what-was-the-cause-of-the-woolly-mammoth-extinction-climate-change-or-hunting/
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The park's primary purpose is to reveal what role various animals had on the ancient ecosystem and whether humans are to blame for the mammoth's extinction. The giant mammals, related to elephants, once roamed many parts of the planet, including North America.
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www.livescience.com/animals/050506_mammoth_park.html
www.livescience.com/animals/050506_mammoth_park.html
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