The fossil record tells a specific story about where megafauna remains are found. Gravel pits, peat bogs, permafrost: these are not random burial sites. They are flood deposits. If the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis holds, and the evidence continues to mount in that direction, then the extinction event becomes a one-two punch. Massive wildfires ignited across continents, followed immediately by catastrophic flooding on a scale difficult to comprehend. What survived the initial firestorm was swept away in the deluge that followed. The distribution of remains supports this sequence. It's not just that these animals died. It's how they died, and where their bodies ended up, that points to a singular, violent event rather than a slow decline.