How is it possible for a mammoth to be frozen standing up and with undigested food still in his stomach?

Answer 1

Ever hear the Bible talk about a great flood? Read it sometime! Great catastrophe. Drowned. Then froze.

Answer 2

I understand that the real freaky thing about the frozen mammoths is that their stomachs did not decompose. The fact is that if the animal froze under normal conditions, it's internal temperature would remain for hours or days. That's enough for bacteria inside the animal to effect a lot of decomposition.

The fact that this did not happen to any degree points to the animal freezing right through very quickly. When you consider the size of a mammoth, this would take an enormous temperature drop.

Just try and see how long it takes to freeze a large turkey of chicken all the way through in your freezer. It takes hours for a 10 pound bird. We're talking here about a 5 ton animal. The temperature drop would have to be sudden and to about -100.

Yes, the movie "Day After Tomorrow" should be a must see, also for the opening scenes where you are flying across the ice shelf and see nothing but ice until some specks appear, which then grow to be a research post, with the guys drilling in the ice. The music is awesome also.

Great movie.

Answer 3

If mammoths were anything like elephants (and there's every reason to believe they were), then food can remain 'undigested' in their stomachs for quite an extended period.

However, for the most part, the question only arises as part of a common creationist argument in support of a global flood catastrophe; it shouldn't be necessary to say this, but when these arguments are made, it's usually just a bunch of lies (see link)

Answer 4

If the planet connects electrically with another object floating through space. This will cause a massive energy discharge at our poles. In fact, this is exactly what happened. Massive hurricanes formed over our poles and sucked all the energy out of the area. It raised a mound of water and quick froze it all, but it still pushed the sodium towards the ocean floor so the water is fresh and drinkable. Really cool how that worked out. Anyways the area got flash frozen including the poor mammoth.

Venus did it.

Answer 5

It's rumored that the mammoth slept standing up. Sleep slows everything down, body temperature, brain function, breathing,hence undigested food....

Answer 6

It is possible if there was a catastrophic event, such as an impact of a large object with the Earth. This would wreak havoc on the weather and cause conditions for a "quick freeze" to exist. It is theorized that this has in fact happened, from the discovery of such remains in Siberia and other places around the Earth.

Answer 7

i saw a documentary about expeditions in the Himalayas,they told of how a couple of hikers were frozen in their tracks. its called a "flash freeze" the temperatures are somewhere around 30 or 40 BELOW on average. the flash freeze happens during high winds,creating wind chills in the neighborhood of 200 or 300 below

Answer 8

Maybe he went to sleep and never woke up. It's freaking cold up there you know. If it was in the snowy season where they get feet at a time then it would have just held him there.

Ahh yes I do remember hearing about the peat bog thing. Go with his answer :)

Answer 9

he was frozen real fast. and i think elephants sleep standing up, so mammoth might do the same. or maybe he was just stuck in deep snow.

Answer 10

the mammoth you are refering to sank in a peat bog, which then froze over over time the mammoth came to the surface

Answer 11

They told Harry not to go out in the cold but he just had to eat one more bunch of that five leaf plant that made him feel soooo good. He was never seen again.