Dogs eat mammoth

Husky dogs eat mammoth in Alaska – and help strike gold!

Oops – husky dogs tucked into a big meal that also happened to be a historical discovery of mammoth importance

`Experiments were made on the flesh of the mammoth recently found in Alaska to see if decomposition would set in, but no change took place beyond a rapid dessication and powdering away of the flesh. The meat was apparently quite fresh, and was eaten with relish by the sleigh dogs, but the vital principle in the germs of putrefaction had faded out in the passage of the 10.000 years and the flesh would not “go bad.”
The huge animal was lying on what is called bedrock in mining, and several nuggets of gold were found beneath the body.’

First published in a British newspaper in 1901