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An intact baby woolly mammoth has been found frozen in permafrost in northwest Canada. This is the first discovery in North America.
Reported BBC, this naturally mummified Ice Age mammoth is estimated to be over 30,000 years old. Its existence was discovered Tuesday by gold prospectors in the Klondike region of Yukon.
The discovery area belongs to the Tr'ondek Hwech'in First Nation. The Yukon government compared the discovery to the discovery of a baby Russian mammoth in the Siberian ice cap in 2007.
“This is the most complete mammoth mummy found in North America and only the second found in the world,” said Yukon paleontologist Grant Zazula.
The baby, thought to be a girl, was named Nun cho ga, meaning big baby animal in Han. The language was spoken by Native Americans in the area.
“Nun cho ga is magnificent and one of the most extraordinary mummified Ice Age animals ever found in the world,” he explained.
It is almost the same size as the Siberian baby Lyuba discovered in 2007, about 42,000 years old, the Yukon government said in a news release.
The partial remains of a mammoth calf, named Effie, were discovered in 1948 in a gold mine in neighboring Alaska.
CBC News says Nun cho ga was dug up after a miner. He then called his boss to check if his bulldozer had hit the mud at Eureka Creek, south of Dawson City.
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