As alpine ice melts, hundreds of ancient artifacts have been recovered from the southern Yukon.
Source: Sticky orange coating on a 6,000-year-old Yukon dart came from a beaver’s anal sac
Fuckin’ beavers! Is there nothing they can’t do?
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OldRod: So… they just happened to have some secretions from a beaver’s anal sac to compare this to? Castoreum comes from a beaver’s bum sacs. It is sometimes used in food, but also in any “manly” smelling cologne. Basically, the smell you think of as “cowboy” is really “beaver’s asshole”. |


