Prehistoric mystery meat put to the test (spoiler alert: it’s not woolly mammoth OR giant ground sloth)

Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 18:10 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Sorry, Explorers Club, but woolly mammoth is no longer on the menu. Neither is the giant ground sloth. A Yale-led analysis has shown that a famous morsel of meat from a 1951 Explorers Club dinner is not, in fact, a hunk of woolly mammoth. It is green sea turtle meat, most likely set aside from […]

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