Prehistorians Puzzle Over WORLDWIDE MAMMAL MASSACRE - Paul W Kroll - April 1970

Paul W Kroll

Not many thousands of years ago, a series of bizarre catastrophes turned our earth into an animal disaster area. It was a massacre of worldwide proportions. Today paleontologists stare at the fossil record. They ask themselves, "But why -and HOW?" The place: Alaska. The subject: A mysterious series of events that wiped out mammal life in Alaska a few thousand years ago. THE REPORTER: Frank C. Hibben, well-known professor of archaeology at the University of New Mexico who visited Alaska in 1941. He surveyed the tragic effects visible in the fossil record. Later, Dr. Hibben pieced together the facts in his book, The Lost Americans. Here is a part of the baffling story as he told it. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library