Two Grad Students Use Science To Bust The Dinner Hoax Of The Century

Source: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/02/05/465309625/two-grad-students-use-science-to-bust-the-dinner-hoax-of-the-century?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=thesalt

According to legend, the Explorers Club — a society of scientific adventurers — served its members a prehistoric dish at its annual dinner in 1951. By some accounts, the mystery meat was woolly mammoth; by others, extinct giant sloth. Now DNA analysis has provided a definitive answer — and unraveled a decades-long deception.

According to legend, the Explorers Club — a society of scientific adventurers — served its members a prehistoric dish at its annual dinner in 1951. By some accounts, the mystery meat was woolly mammoth; by others, extinct giant sloth. Now DNA analysis has provided a definitive answer — and unraveled a decades-long deception.

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There aren’t a lot of people who have dined on meat from the Pleistocene, prehistoric humans notwithstanding. That’s why accounts of the 1951 Annual Dinner of the Explorers Club, a societ…

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