Smithsonian Has Pickled Mammoth

Posted by on November 25th, 2010

“Acquired by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in 1922, these jars contain preserved muscle tissue taken from the left hind leg of a woolly mammoth uncovered in 1901 by palaeontologist Eugene Pfizenmayer – though they aren’t on public display.”

Awesome.

[New Scientist]

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