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The Explorers Club in New York City, whose members have included Neil Armstrong, Teddy Roosevelt,

and the first men to reach both the North and South Poles, has a reputation for serving exotic entrees,

like fried tarantula and goats eyeballs. In 1951, the dinner menu featured

Pacific spider crabs, turtle soup, bison steak, and allegedly scavenged from glacial ice

off the coast of Alaska, a mound of mammoth meat. One club member who couldn't make the dinner

asked to be sent a do doggy bag, which he promptly

donated to the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut. What was particularly odd,

odder than displaying leftovers in a museum, was that the mammoth meat was labeled

Megatherium, a giant extinct ground sloth native to South America. So which was it? Mammoth or monster sloth?

To find out, 64 years later, researchers sequenced some mitochondrial DNA they extracted from

the preserved prehistoric takeaway. What they found is that the source of the sample was neither

mammoth nor sloth. It was actually sea turtle, meat that likely contributed to both the

main course and that turtle soup appetizer. That's the forensic finding served up in the journal

Plus One. Of course, a double order of sea turtle might not be as exciting as a mouthful of

mammoth or a soupsaint of sloth, but it may be easier to swallow.

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