As Siberia thaws, more and more mammoth carcasses show up. And they are still considered carcasses, because they are still meat. And sometimes, edible.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/rea ... for-dinner
Even when mammoth meat isn't actually putrid, it still doesn't make great eating. According to Richard Stone's book Mammoth (2001), Russian zoologist Alexei Tikhonov (who figures in articles about the recent Siberian find) once tried a bite and said "it was awful. It tasted like meat left too long in a freezer."
Not great, but edible.
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But now, I guess they found a mammoth carcass, poked it or something, and blood oozed out. That is pretty cool, because if there are viable living cells, there is the possibility of cloning. This is also the "old lady" of a mammoth, in that an older female, in this case about 60, hasn't been found, before.
So, what do you think? Morality? Practicality?
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