“Bones of men and animals are found in the earth, in mountains and in valleys, showing that much larger men and beasts once lived upon the earth.  I was shown that very large, powerful animals existed before the flood which do not now exist.”  1SP:87; 3SG:92.1.

 

“God so ordered that men, beasts, and trees, many times larger than those now upon the earth, and other things, should be buried in the earth at the time of the flood, and there be preserved to evidence to man that the inhabitants of the old world perished by a flood.”  1SP:90; 3SG:95; LHU:59.

 

“But if there was one sin above another which called for the destruction of the race by the flood, it was the base crime of amalgamation of man and beast which defaced the image of God, and caused confusion everywhere.”  1SP:69; 3SG:64.

 

“Every species of animals which God had created was preserved in the ark.  The confused species which God did not create, which were the result of amalgamation, were destroyed by the flood.  Since the flood, there has been amalgamation of man and beast, as may be seen in the almost endless varieties of species of animals, and in certain races of men.”  1SP:78.2; 3SG:75.2.

 

“Soon after the flood the race began to rapidly decrease in size, and in length of years.  There were a class of very large animals which perished at the flood.  God knew that the strength of man would decrease, and these mammoth animals could not be controlled by feeble man.”  4aSG:121.2.