SOURCE: The Guardian
2-3-16
tags: archaeology, woolly mammoth
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2-3-16
Mammoth meat was never served at 1950s New York dinner, says researcher
Breaking Newstags: archaeology, woolly mammoth
Woolly mammoth was never served at a lavish 1950s New York dinner where rare and extinct species were trumpeted as being on the menu, a researcher has said after putting leftover meat through DNA analysis.
The Explorers Club soiree became folklore after it was said to have included 250,000-year-old extinct mammoth. Meat from a giant ground sloth was also promised.
But a DNA analysis from a fist-sized piece of meat kept as a souvenir showed something more mundane: sea turtle.
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