Tag: Mammoth

Australian company named Vow made headlines for creating a meatball — from an extinct species. Sort of. It’s not true mammoth meat. It’s faux-mammoth meat? Meat with the essence of mammoth flavor? Let’s look at what Vow did, and what it might actually mean for the offer...

Four thousand years ago, when Pharaohs built the magnificent pyramids at Giza, the last remaining woolly mammoth died on Wrangel Island. Roughly the size of Crete, the island is in the Arctic Ocean, near the Russia-U.S. border. The majestic creature had lost its sense of smell. It had shrunk in size...