The Earth's Shifting Crust by Charles Hapgood - wire of information

VIII : THE
GREAT EXTINCTIONS
When this theory was first presented to a group of scientists
at the American Museum of Natural History, on January 27,
1955, Professor Walter H. Bucher, former President of the
Geological Society of America, made an interesting observa-
tion. I had presented evidence to support the contention that
North America had been displaced southward and Antarctica
had been moved farther into the Antarctic Circle by the
movement of the crust at the end of the ice age. Professor
Bucher pointed out that, if this were so, there must have
been an equal movement of the crust northward on the op-
posite side of the earth. He asked me whether there was evidence
of this. I said I thought there was. I am presenting the
evidence here.
7. The Extinction of the Mammoths
The closing millennia of the ice age saw an enormous mortal-
ity of animals in many parts of the world. Hibben estimated
that as many as 40,000,000 animals died in North America
alone (212:168). Many species of animals became extinct, in-
cluding mammoths, mastodons, giant beaver, sabertooth cats,
giant sloths, woolly rhinoceroses. Camels and horses appar-
ently became extinct in North America then or shortly after-
wards, although one authority believes a variety of Pleistocene
horse has survived in Haiti (365). The paleontologist Scott is
enormously puzzled both by the great
and by its effects:
climatic revolution
The extraordinary and inexplicable climatic revolutions had a
profound effect upon animal life, and occasioned or at least ac-
companied, the great extinctions, which, at the end of the Pleistocene,