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moving south to their present positions. The corpus delicti of the | LANDLOCKED SEA ANIMALS deceased may be discovered almost everywhere. Bones lie In South America we see the upheaval of half a continent in bleaching on the sands of Florida and in the gravels of New which the deaths of millions more resulted from extensive vol- Jersey. They weather out of the dry terraces of Texas and pro- canic eruptions and vast floods. There, in the heart of the Andes, trude from the sticky ooze of the Wilshire Boulevard tar pits of | at an average elevation of 12,300 feet, extends the Meseta or Los Angeles. Thousands more are found in Mexico, Central Altiplano—the highest lacustrine basin in the world, on the floor America and South America. Bodies of the victims are every- of which today is a succession of remarkable lakes. The largest of where in evidence. these, Lake Titicaca, is rimmed with ancient boat docks and sup- ports the only species of sea horse (Hippocampus) known to live INSTANT DESTRUCTION, QUICK EXTINCTION in a landlocked body of water. Hippocampus is typically a marine One might first think that many of these great animals died nat- creature, and, with Allorchests and a few other oceanic forms ural deaths; that is, that the remains found in Pleistocene strata inhabiting this lake, has survived from a time when the lake may over the continents represent normal have been in direct contact with the deaths ending the ordinary life-cycle. ocean, now 12,300 feet below. Where we can study these animals— (While swimming in Lake such as in the great bone pits of Nicaragua, the author was almost Nebraska—in some detail, however, In South America we see the killed by sharks which have long we find literally thousands of remains . . ago similarly adapted to fresh water mixed together, apparently overcome upheaval of half a continent in since the lake was cut off from the by an awesome power. Millions of which the deaths of millions more ocean.) humans and animals were killed in . . The extensive volcanic eruptions their prime. What emerges is a pic- resulted from extensive volcanic evident in South and Central ture of quick extinction as the Earth 4 America also appear to have rolled over. eruptions and vast floods. occurred in Alaska. The evidence of violence is obvi- Frank C. Hibben, in his book, The ous. Huge mammoths and bison alike Lost Americans, describes the result- were torn and twisted and scattered ing mass graves: over the landscape like so much straw Interspersed in the muck depths and string, as though by a cosmic hand in universal rage. In one — and sometimes through the very piles of bones and tusks them - place we find the foreleg and shoulder of a mammoth, with por- selves are layers of volcanic ash. [There were] volcanic erup - tions of flesh and toenails and hair still clinging to blackened tions of tremendous proportions [and] atmospheric disturbances bones. Close by is the neck and skull of a bison, its head pulled of unparalleled violence. off, with vertebrae clinging together with tendons and ligaments, Such eruptions on a great scale would be a corollary of any and chitinous covering of the horns still intact. Beside it is the shift of the Earth's crust. pitifully crushed hand of a little child. There is no mark of a knife or cutting instrument; fragments were simply torn apart. SNAP-FROZEN IN SIBERIA ic 1 that a th tha athar moving south to their present positions. The corpus delicti of the deceased may be discovered almost everywhere. Bones lie bleaching on the sands of Florida and in the gravels of New Jersey. They weather out of the dry terraces of Texas and pro- trude from the sticky ooze of the Wilshire Boulevard tar pits of Los Angeles. Thousands more are found in Mexico, Central America and South America. Bodies of the victims are every- where in evidence. SNAP-FROZEN IN SIBERIA It is logical that as one side of the crust moved south, the other side of the globe would be moving north. Is there evidence that what are cold lands today were once warm, and that warm lands today were once cold? As it happens, there is no difficulty in producing evidence to show that the climate of eastern Siberia was once warmer. A study of the reports of well-preserved bodies of mammoths found frozen in Siberia reveals some remarkable facts: 1) Astonishing as it may seem, it is not true that the mammoth was adapted to a very cold climate. 2) Frozen mammoths increase in numbers the farther north one goes, and they are most numerous in the New Siberian Islands which lie between the Arctic coast of Siberia and the north pole. 3) Ivory is easily ruined by exposure to weather, yet, uncounted thousands of pairs of tusks have been preserved in condition good enough for the ivory carving trade. 4) The mammoth carcasses are accompanied by many other animal species. 5) The bodies of many mammoths and a few other animals have been preserved so perfectly in the frozen ground that they are still edible today. The French zoologist and dermatologist H. Neuville performed a comparative microscopic study of sections of mammoth skin and the skin of an Indian elephant, showing that they were identi- cal in thickness and structure. They were not merely similar, they were exactly the same. Then he showed that the lack of oil glands in the skin of both animals made their hair less resistant to cold 180° The southern hemisphere, showing three former shifts and positions of the south pole, according to Charles Hapgood. (From Hapgood's Path of the Pole, 1970.) 0° 180° 48 = NEXUS In South America we see the resulted from extensive volcanic eruptions and vast floods. OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1997