Frozen baby woolly mammoth found in Canada

Gold diggers have accidentally discovered the most complete giant in North America. The Baby Woolly Mammoth has been preserved in the snow for more than 30,000 years.

Whitehorse (Canada). according to a report of BBC Gold miners in Yukon, northwestern Canada, accidentally discovered the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), an extinct species of the elephant family. The Yukon Territory government and the Trondok Hwachine indigenous people said the female cub was found during permafrost excavations in the Klondike goldfields.

The Baby Woolly Mammoth is “the most complete mummified mammoth found in North America.” The elders of the Trondic Hwachine people named the mummified baby the woolly giant nun Cho Ga (big baby animal).

over 30,000 years in the ice

According to scientists at the University of Calgary and geologists from ca., the woolly mammoth died out during the Ice Age. After that, it was preserved in permafrost for more than 30,000 years. According to preliminary investigation, the animal was about a month old when it died.

Grant ZaZula, a paleontologist from ca., told Global News that Nun Cho Ga was “an incredible scientific discovery.” The skin and hair of the animal are well preserved. “If you look at her feet, she has tiny little nails and toes that are not fully set yet. Nun Cho Ga is beautiful and one of the most incredible mummified ice age animals ever discovered in the world It is,” said Zazula.

second such search

Nun Cho Ga is the second such discovery in the world. In 2007, a woolly mammoth of roughly the same size was discovered in Siberia, which had spent about 42,000 years in the ice. Parts of a giant calf were also discovered in 1948 in a gold mine in the US state of Alaska. However, compared to the discovery of Yukon and Siberia, the discovery from Alaska was very incomplete and quite poorly preserved.

Woolly Mammoth Lifestyle

How woolly mammoths lived in the hundreds of thousands across Eurasia and North America is largely unknown to science. This species became extinct on the mainland about 13,000 years ago. On some arctic islands, animals lived for several millennia. This species arose during the transition from the Old to the Middle Pleistocene, about 800,000 to 600,000 years ago.