X-Message-Number: 3165 Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 10:23:16 -0400 (EDT) From: 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?) >Message-ID: <> >Date: 7 Feb 92 21:20:49 GMT >Sender: >Reply-To: (Mickey Rowe) >Organization: University of Pennsylvania >Nntp-Posting-Host: pender.ee.upenn.edu > >In article <> > writes: > >>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 () Item that may be of interest to some. Jan (John) Coetzee. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=3165