An Australian startup on Tue. unveiled the world's first ever meatball made from woolly mammoth DNA. (CNN)

Australian startup Vow unveiled the 400 gram mammoth meatball Tue. at a science museum in the Netherlands. (USA Today)

According to Vow, the meatball was made from lab-grown cultured meat created from woolly mammoth DNA.

Vow founder Tim Noakesmith told the AP that the meatball was meant to be "a conversation starter" for lab-grown meat.

Noakesmith: "We wanted to get people excited about the future of food being different to...what we had before." (AP)

Noakesmith: "That there are things that are unique and better than the meats that we're necessarily eating now."

Noakesmith: "...we thought the mammoth would be a conversation starter and get people excited about this new future."