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On 4/23/2025 6:03 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> tidux  <tidux@borg.moe> wrote:
>> On 2025-04-08, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Maybe you will like the Woolly Mammoth that they are working on now better.
>> The woolly *mice* they made as prototypes are adorable.  Girl Genius style
>> mimmoths are next.
> 
> The woolly mammoth was hunted to extinction by men.  It must have tasted
> really good or they wouldn't have caught them all.  I'm all for bringing
> it back if it is good to eat.
> --scott

It probably wasn't just because of the taste.  Archeological sites 
indicate that every part of the mammoth was used.  Pelts for housing and 
clothes, ivory and bone for various tools and art, sinew for thread, 
etc. etc.

-- 
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.