Credit, Government of Yukon
A baby woolly mammoth has been found frozen in permafrost in northwest Canada.
This is the first discovery of its kind in North America.
The mummified Ice Age mammoth is thought to be more than 30,000 years old.
It was discovered by prospectors in the Klondike region of the Yukon on Tuesday (06/21).
According to CBC News, a miner called his boss to look at something that had been hit by his excavator in the mud at Eureka Creek, south of Dawson City.
The area of discovery belongs to the Tr’ondek Hwech’in First Nation.
The Yukon government compared this discovery with another discovery made in Russia, also that of a baby mammoth, which was found in the permafrost of Siberia in 2007.
The government said it was the “most complete mummified mammoth found in North America” and only the second such discovery in the world.
Credit, Government of Yukon
It is about the same size as the Siberian baby, about 42,000 years old, the Yukon government said in a news release.
The baby, believed to be female, was named Nun cho ga, meaning “big baby animal” in the Han language spoken by the region’s indigenous people.
“Nun cho ga is magnificent and one of the most incredible mummified Ice Age animals ever discovered anywhere in the world,” said paleontologist Grant Zazula.
Before Nun cho ga, partial remains of a mammoth calf were discovered in 1948 in a gold mine in Alaska.
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