A near-perfectly mummified baby woolly mammoth — thought to be more than 30,000 years old — has been accidentally unearthed by a gold miner in Yukon, north-west Canada.
Nun cho ga is the best-preserved woolly mammoth ever found in North AmericaIt marks the most significant and well-preserved discovery of a woolly mammoth in North America's history, with a partial mammoth calf named Effie found at an Alaskan gold mine in 1948.
Named Nun cho ga, which means "big baby animal" in the Hän language, the young female mammoth was in amazing condition."As an Ice Age palaeontologist, it has been one of my lifelong dreams to come face to face with a real woolly mammoth. That dream came true today," he said In a statement, the government of Yukon and the Indigenous group Trʼondëk Hwëchʼi said that Nun cho ga would have roamed the Yukon with wild horses, cave lions and giant steppe bison.
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