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Mammoths found with undigested grass in their stomachs have been lying in the permafrost for several thousand years, historians say.

But a historian is not a chemist. A historian cannot explain why mammoths did not decompose under the influence of their own gastric juice.

Gastric juice needs body temperature (35-37°C) to work properly. But there is hydrochloric acid in the gastric juice.

And here's a surprise for the historian who skipped chemistry in school. The average permafrost temperature is about -15°C, and hydrochloric acid continues to work even at -30°C.

Slower, of course, but it still works. And how in "thousands of years" have mammoths not decomposed?

There is only one answer: they froze up not more than 300...400 years ago.