Woolly tale approximately Explorers Club soiree falls over as leftover gobbet turns out to be sea turtle after 21st-century DNA analysis Woolly mammoth was never served at a lavish 1950s New York dinner where scarce 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 250000-year-old-fashioned extinct mammoth. Meat from a giant ground sloth was also promised.
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Source: theguardian.com