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Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 10:23:16 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: CRYONICS Frozen Mammoths

Date sent:  19-SEP-1994 10:21:51 
>From:  (Mickey Rowe)
>Newsgroups: sci.bio
>Subject: Frozen mammoths (was Re: Latest Dino Extinction News?)
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>Date: 7 Feb 92 21:20:49 GMT
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>>In 1908 and 1909 the Saturday Evening Post describes a mammoth that was frozen

>>so quickly that the meat was preserved and the food it was eating (buttercups)
>

>>didn't have time to digest. If this mammoth was frozen so quickly on that day,
>>I wander how many other animals were quick frozen that day.
>
>Careful what you believe from such popularized accounts.  These
>reports have often been garbled to make it sound like mammoth were
>happily munching buttercups one moment, and frozen stiff the next.
>Apparently the animals always had bits of plant matter stuck to their

>teeth, because they were never taught proper brushing techniques and
>they ate very course foods.  Also, being quick frozen wasn't so much
>responsible for preserving them as was being rapidly buried by wind
>blown silt.  Even then, reports of people dining on the "fresh" meat
>are somewhat exaggerated.  Although some dogs found them appetizing,
>as best I can recall, the humans always found the odor of decay in
>even the best preserved specimens somewhat nauseating.There have
>been a couple of articles written about these things in _Natural
>History_ over the past couple of years, so if you *really* want to
>know more, I could dig them up and post references.  Several mammoths
>and other pleistocence animals (notably Babe, a large blue ox) have
>been found preserved this way. 
>Mickey Rowe     ()   
>

>>didn't have time to digest. If this mammoth was frozen so quickly on that day,
>>I wander how many other animals were quick frozen that day.
>
>Careful what you believe from such popularized accounts.  These
>reports have often been garbled to make it sound like mammoth were
>happily munching buttercups one moment, and frozen stiff the next.
>Apparently the animals always had bits of plant matter stuck to their
>teeth, because they were never taught proper brushing techniques and
>they ate very course foods.  Also, being quick frozen wasn't so much
>responsible for preserving them as was being rapidly buried by wind
>blown silt.  Even then, reports of people dining on the "fresh" meat
>are somewhat exaggerated.  Although some dogs found them appetizing,
>as best I can recall, the humans always found the odor of decay in
>even the best preserved specimens somewhat nauseating.There have
>been a couple of articles written about these things in _Natural
>History_ over the past couple of years, so if you *really* want to
>know more, I could dig them up and post references.  Several mammoths
>and other pleistocence animals (notably Babe, a large blue ox) have
>been found preserved this way.
>
>Mickey Rowe     ()   
>

>>didn't have time to digest. If this mammoth was frozen so quickly on that day,
>>I wander how many other animals were quick frozen that day.
>
>Careful what you believe from such popularized accounts.  These
>reports have often been garbled to make it sound like mammoth were
>happily munching buttercups one moment, and frozen stiff the next.
>Apparently the animals always had bits of plant matter stuck to their
>teeth, because they were never taught proper brushing techniques and
>they ate very course foods.  Also, being quick frozen wasn't so much
>responsible for preserving them as was being rapidly buried by wind
>blown silt.  Even then, reports of people dining on the "fresh" meat
>are somewhat exaggerated.  Although some dogs found them appetizing,
>as best I can recall, the humans always found the odor of decay in
>even the best preserved specimens somewhat nauseating.There have
>been a couple of articles written about these things in _Natural
>History_ over the past couple of years, so if you *really* want to
>know more, I could dig them up and post references.  Several mammoths
>and other pleistocence animals (notably Babe, a large blue ox) have
>been found preserved this way.
>
>Mickey Rowe     ()   

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