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twisted parts of animaJs and tcees
intermingled with tenses of ice and
layers of peat and mosses. It looks as
though in the roiddle of sorne
catacly.r–
mic cata.rtrophe
... the whole AJaskan
world of living animals and plants was
suddcnly frozen in mid-motion in a
grim charade" (Frank C. Hibben,
The
Lost Americans,
New York: Apollo
Editions,
1961,
pp.
90, 91).
Tendons, ligaments, fragments of
skin and hair, hooves - all are pre–
served in the muck. In some cases,
portions of animal flesh have been
preserved. Bones of mammoths, masto–
dons, bison, horses, wolves, bears and
lions are hopelessly entangled! Onc
author counts
1,766
jaws and 4,838
metapodials from
ONE
species of bison
in a small area near Fairbanks, Alaska,
alone.
Archaeologist Hibben saw with his
own eyes - and smelled with his own
nostrils - the spectcr of death. North
of Fairbanks, Alaska, he saw bulldozers
pushing the melting muck into sluice
boxes for the extractioo of gold. As
the dozers' blades scooped up the
melting
gunk,
mammoth tusks and
bones "rolled up like shavings befare a
giant plane."
The
stench of rotting
Resh -
tons of it - could be smelled
for miles around.
Hibben and his colleagues walked
the pits for days. As they followed the
bulldozers they discovered perfect bison
skulls with horns attached, mammoth
skin with long black hair and jumbled
masses of bones.
Appalling Oeath in Alaska
But Jet Hibben continue his grisJy
account:
"Mammals there were in abundance,
duroped in all attitudes of death. Most
of them were pulled apart by sorne
tmexplained prehislol'ic cata.rtrophic dis–
tlll·bance.
Legs and torsos and heads and
fragments were found together in pi les
or scattered separately"
(!bid. ,
p.
97).
Logs, twisted trees, brancbes and
stumps were interlaced with the maro–
mal menagerie. The signs of sudden
death were legion.
For example, in this Alaskan muck,
stomachs of frozen mammoths have
been discovered. These frozen stomach
masses contained the leaves and grasses
TIJe
PLAIN TRUTH
the animals had just
eaten befare death
struck. Seemingly, no
animal was spared.
"The
youog líe with
the
old, foal with dam
and calf with cow.
Whole herds of animals
were apparently killed
together, overcome by
sorne common power"
(!bid. ,
p.
170).
Suddeo and
Unnatural Death
The muck pits of
Alaska are fiJ1ed with
evidence of universal
and catastrophic death.
These animals simply
did not perish by any
ordinary means. Mul–
tiple thousands of ani–
mals in their prime were
obliterated.
On reviewing the evi–
dence before bis eyes,
Hibben concluded:
"We have gained
from the muck pits of the Yukon Valley
a picture of
QU!CK EXTINCTJON.
The
evidences of violence there are as
obvious as in the horror camps of
[Nazi] Germany. Such piles of bodies
of animals or men
simply do not occm·
by any ordinary means"
( Frank C. Hib–
ben,
The Lost Americam,
New York:
Apollo Editions,
1961,
p.
170).
If
you want the
ft~/1
impact
of what
Dr. Hibben surveyed, read his book,
The Lo.rt Americans.
Why
Paleontologists Are Puzzled
It is this type of colossal carnage
which gives scientific workers gray hairs.
But Alaska's immense slaughterhouse re–
mains onJy one case in point.
Much of North America beyond
Alaska's frontiers became an animal
disaster area.
It
has never recovered
from the effects. North America would
have made Africa's modero big-game
country look like a children's zoo in
those B.C. ("Befare Catastrophe")
times.
The imperial mammoths, largest
known members of the elephant family,
thundered across western North Amer-
April-May, 1970
Covrtesy
of Ameri<on Muteum ol Noturol
Hittory
BABY WOOLLY MAMMOTH
-
dug out of frozen ground in
Alaska, now kept preserved in a
refrigerated case.
ica. In New England, lhc mastodon,
another elephant cousin, roameq the
countryside. Further north, another
tusky relative, the woolly man1moth
made his home.
Besides elephants, the woolly rhinoc–
eros, giant ground sloths, giant arma–
dillos, bear-sized beavers, saber-toothed
tigers, camels, antclopes, giant jaguars
ALL
roamed the countryside.
Then, with alarming suddenness -
al! these creatures perished. The evi–
dence is still with us in the rocks for all
to see. In varying degrecs, it is found
on every continent the world over.
Across the vast stretches of Siberia -
on the other side of the Arctic ocean,
the same type of monstrous maroma!
pogrom is quite evident.
Worldwide Destruction Enigma
Africa is populated with an immense
number of cxotic animals. But fossil