When I tried to read some of the research done on the woolly mammoths and bison found frozen I found it is not as the popularized articles stated but something different entirely. It appears that animals either had a side of a hill collapse on them which eventually froze and mummified their carcasses over time or they fell into a crevasse where they froze and were mummified. So, it isn't really at all about a suddden change of temperature other than a change of the temperature of their bodies after either being buried in a landslide or falling into a crevasse.
So, in this sense the popularized articles don't do justice to the facts (at least of the cases represented here).
What I'm saying here is that at least in two of the cases I was reading about being studied here in the above word button it was not about a sudden change of climate but rather of a mud or rock slide or falling into a crevasse and not being able to get out.
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