Why?
For the meat, of course!
I remember reading in Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago where the prisoners in a Siberian gulag unearthed perfectly preserved prehistoric fish and salamanders embedded in ice at the Kolyma River — and, in their hunger, roasted and ate them. No questions asked.
When I read I Claudius he mentioned (and I don’t know if it’s historically accurate or not) that Caligula had a feast given him and it had a strange animal they found embedded in the ice on the mountaintop, a mammoth. It was roasted and served at the feast.
SunkenCiv, do you know if that was real?
Hey now!