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Let's not be hypocritical. What we really want to know is: did you find/preserve intact DNA? If the answer is yes, I'm not even going to speculate what happens
by Natales 6y ago
Let's not be hypocritical. What we really want to know is: did you find/preserve intact DNA? If the answer is yes, I'm not even going to speculate what happens next. We just know it.
- dotancohen 6y agoWhat we really want to know is: How does it taste?
- wazoox 6y agoAFAIK up until 100 years ago in Siberia people used dug up meat from mammoths or woolly rhinos to feed dogs...
- EL_Loco 6y agoThat would mean that there were plenty of mammoths around just underground, easy to find and within easy reach. If that is the case, wouldn't scientists flock to the area and collect them by the dozens?
- wazoox 6y agoFossil ivory trade was significant for Siberians for centuries, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory#Alternative_sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory#Alternative_sources I think you underestimates the difficulty to travel across Siberia: almost no roads, no trains, few and scattered inhabitants, thousands of km of steppe in all directions... Huge parts of the country are basically only accessible by helicopter (which is extremely expensive). In fact they even used an heavy helicopter to bring back a whole mammoth to Moscow a few years ago.
- hownottowrite 6y ago19,551 year old Mammoth is gamey as hell. Woolly Rhino is probably not so different though. https://shop.minimuseum.com/products/mammoth-meat https://shop.minimuseum.com/products/mammoth-meat
- romanhn 6y agoWhat an amazing website, wish I found it before the holidays :-) Thanks for sharing!
- pomian 6y agoI knew a fellow who used to tell the story, how his Dad was 'treated' with mammoth meat, when visiting Siberia. Would have been around 1900-10.