Robert sent in a couple of links critical of mainstream thinking, in a July email. At https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/ancient-mysteries/130-000-year-old-mammoth-calf-smells-like-fermented-earth-and-flesh-necropsy-reveals … a mammoth calf, dating to the last interglacial period, around 130,000 years ago, smells like fermented earth and flesh. Robert comments – it will be interesting to see what the results of the necropsy are. Many mammoth remains indicate rapid burial, and death was usually down to asphyxiation through inhaling fine grained sediment – or loess, in this instance. The loess also contained remains of aquatic organisms – which suggest some kind of catastrophic event.
His second link is https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a65277470/old-whale-carcass-houses-animals-in-sea/ … a whale’s decomposing body is located near where scientists monitor methane gas escaping from a sea floor vent. As such, they became aware of the whale carcass and had a thorough look at that as well. The whole carcass is so big it will take years to fully decompose and disappear. As such, it has become the home of many bottom feeding organisms on the sea floor. How does this slow rate of decomposition fit into the mainstream ideas on fossil formation, he asks. Good question. Very little of the whale will be left – after the bottom feeders have dined over the years. Mainstream picture dead animals, including whales, and ducks and fish, gently and slowly sinking to the bottom of lakes, seas, and oceans. They are then immediately covered in sediment ir order to preserve the animal for posterity. No bottom feeders are involved in the process. Here, at this link, is outright proof of what happens when a dead animal slowly sinks to the bottom water. They are colonised by small organisms and other forms of micro life, and dispatched. The length of time depends on how big the animal might be. Fossils are not slowly formed, Robert argues, they are rapidly buried in a catastrophic change to the environment in which they live.