A Mammoth Enigma | Energy Matters.
During the depths of the last glaciation hundreds of Wooly Mammoths died and froze quickly sometimes with food in their mouths. The beasts became entombed in bogs that froze solid and remain frozen today in the East Siberian permafrost. (Image Wikipedia)
Why were there bogs in East Siberia during the depths of the last glaciation? And why has the permafrost not thawed during 10,000 years of Holocene interglacial?
That is the Mammoth Enigma.
In searching the internet for information to answer this enigma I was surprised to find little concrete data and that web sources on this subject are dominated by creationist views.
My initial interest on this topic was spawned by a TV documentary describing a remarkably well preserved specimen called Yuka with real Mammoth blood. Enter Stephen Spielberg with the script for Pleistocene Park. It does seem plausible that we see a mammoth clone one day.
