Staggering Number of Bones of Extinct Ice Age Animals Found in Mexico

International Business Times ^ | September 4, 2012 | Sanskrity Sinha

[ForGod'sSake]

Out of several articles on this find I chose this one because it had the glitziest headline and because the author added his/her own editorial in the last sentence I thought was, well, comical...

[ForGod'sSake]

Landslide ~ping~

[doc1019]

Or a really big flood.

[ForGod'sSake]

Yep. Or perchance a REALLY big wave.

[FormerACLUmember]

Gentle, one with nature, Native Americans butchered the
mega-fauna of the Americas into extinction as they moved south.

[SAR]

Amen

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks ForGod'sSake.

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Thanks ForGod'sSake. Nice job, this is a two-list ping topic. Now I've got some more reading to do, see if this is a death assemblage, i.e. was all laid down at once. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.

[stormer]

Could be a really big flood. Really big floods occur around the world with regularity, and Hidalgo is certainly a place where hurricanes (and ensuing really big floods) have caused significant damage and deaths in the past. Of course we know this isn’t evidence of Noah’s flood; since he gathered two of every animal, we’d still have mammoths, mastodons, and armadillos the size of cars still wandering around.

[katana]

Very likely a mass kill off from a lahar (volcanic mudslide). The Basin of Mexico (Mexico City is built over an unstable lake bed) is surrounded by volcanoes.

[stormer]

[tet68]

Or a really big meteor.

[ForGod'sSake]

Gentle, one with nature, Native Americans butchered the mega-fauna of the Americas into extinction as they moved south.

Yeah, and chased 'em all the way down to Florida where they cornered them on the peninsula -- from SOME accounts as recently as three to four thousand years ago. Not sure how reliable those accounts may be since the megafauna in North America were presumably wiped out at the end Pleistocene. Me, I dunno...

[doc1019]

Believe what you will, I will be very happy in my G_d fearing ignorance. And I believe that G_d will bless me for it.

[ForGod'sSake]

Very likely a mass kill off from a lahar (volcanic mudslide).

Another possibility. Myself, I'm inclined to believe they met their fate the same way most of the other extinct megafauna did in northern and western hemispheres. Fact is, there have been indications from other parts of the world where tsunami type detritus was mingled with volcanic ash, mangled trees and the like -- along with sand and gravel -- from somewhere.

The end of the Pleistocene was not a pretty picture. Our most recent and probably least studied extinction event on the planet. Too close for comfort maybe.

[ForGod'sSake]

Or a really big meteor.

Or several even???

[Lancey Howard]

Staggering Number of Bones of Extinct Ice Age Animals Found in Mexico

They'll probably find a way to snort them or smoke them.

[airborne]

Of course we know this isn’t evidence of Noah’s flood; since he gathered two of every animal, we’d still have mammoths, mastodons, and armadillos the size of cars still wandering around.

Well, using that train of thought, no animals must have become extinct since the time of Noah. Including this very short list, I suppose -

List of Mammals Extinct after 1500 AD

[count-your-change]

I thought these were special animals with more than the normal amount of bones,

[thecodont]

I have to ask: how would you go about making a meal out of that thing?