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Yukon’s discovery of a frozen baby mammoth thrills Canada

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Yukon’s discovery of a frozen baby mammoth thrills Canada. (credits: Google)

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  • The entire frozen body of a young woolly mammoth was found preserved in northwestern Canada.
  • This is the first discovery of its kind in North America.
  • It is estimated that the ice age mammoth that has been mummified is more than 30,000 years old.
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The entire frozen body of a young woolly mammoth was found preserved in the permafrost of northwestern Canada. This is the first discovery of its kind in North America.

It is estimated that the ice age mammoth that has been mummified is more than 30,000 years old. Tuesday was the day that gold miners in the Klondike region of the Yukon came across it.

The Tr’ondek Hwech’in First Nation owns the land surrounding the find in its entirety.

The government of Yukon drew parallels between the find and Russia’s 2007 discovery of a baby mammoth frozen in the permafrost of Siberia.

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It was described as “the most complete mummified mammoth unearthed in North America,” and it was just the second find of its kind ever made anywhere in the world.

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The newborn, which is assumed to be a female, has been given the name Nun cho ga, which translates to “large baby animal” in Han, the language used by Native Americans in the area.

According to Yukon palaeontologist Grant Zazula, “Nun cho ga is one of the most magnificent mummified ice age animals ever discovered in the world.” “Nun cho ga is gorgeous and one of the most incredible mummified ice age animals ever discovered in the world.”

According to a news release issued by the government of Yukon, it is approximately the same size as the Siberian infant Lyuba discovered in 2007, which was approximately 42,000 years old.

It is the North American woolly mammoth that has been found to be in the best state of preservation. In 1948, the fragmentary skeletal remains of a mammoth calf that had been given the name Effie were discovered at a gold mine in the neighbouring state of Alaska.

According to CBC News, a miner called his boss over to investigate something that had been hit by his bulldozer in the muck at Eureka Creek, which is located south of Dawson City. This was the location where Nun cho ga was discovered.

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