In northwestern Canada, prospectors have unearthed a well-preserved mummified baby woolly mammoth. It is “the most complete mummified mammoth found in North America,” the Yukon Territory government and the indigenous people of Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in said Friday.
Workers had discovered the female cub while digging in the permafrost in the Klondike goldfields. The elders of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in people gave him the name “Nun cho ga” (in English: big baby animal). Geologists from the CA and the University of Calgary suspect that Nun cho ga died during the Ice Age and was frozen in permafrost more than 30,000 years old.
Woolly mammoths lived in Eurasia and later in North America for hundreds of thousands of years. The species became extinct on the mainland about 13,000 years ago – on some Arctic islands just a few thousand years later.
“Incredible Scientific Discovery”
“Nun cho ga” is “an incredible scientific discovery,” said paleontologist Grant Zazula of the Global News broadcaster’s competent authority. Hair and skin were preserved. “If you look at her feet, she has tiny fingernails and toenails that aren’t fully cured.” She is about 140 centimeters tall. The initial examination revealed that she was about a month old when she died.
It is only the second woolly mammoth cub discovered worldwide, the report said. In 1948, parts of a mammoth calf named Effie were found in an Alaska gold mine.
Source: Krone
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