[gnarledmaw]

I guess that wouldnt be an example of a "single" event but unless all the specimens at a given site were tested then, were I the investigator at a site, I wouldnt jump to the conclusion that all of them were from a single event. Ive read too many stories about some theory being dumped on its head, because the "truth" everyone clung to was based on some past scientist making an assumption, to accept most science as absolute fact.

[djf]

I understand.

But imagine... gold miners in Alaska were stunned becuse they found something. Being miners and not scientists, they called it simply "muck".

It was (and still is) a mix of rocks, mud, plant material and bones... bones of hundreds of animals, many crushed almost beyond recognition, all this stuff smashed up and blended together like a cosmic blender of sorts.

LOTS of it!

None of the stuff fits into a nice standard theory of "Well, the critter died, it's body floated down the river and he was partially eaten by fish and otters, then his bones settled on the bottom..."

It is evidence of some unbelievably powerful cataclysmic event. A scientist I asked about it says some folks think a comet hit about 11,500 years ago.