The female baby was named Nun cho ga, and she is estimated to have died over 30000 years ago.
The miner found the baby, which retained its skin and hair, while excavating through the permafrost at Eureka Creek in the Klondike gold fields within Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin Traditional Territory, the government's press release said. Other similar finds have been made in Alaska, where a partial mammoth calf named Effie was discovered in 1948. A gold miner in Canada discovered a near complete mummified baby woolly mammoth Tuesday, according to the Yukon government and Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin, a local traditional territory.
The territory said miners working on Eureka Creek uncovered the animal while excavating permafrost on Tuesday. Geologists from the Yukon Geological Survey and ...
Zazula, who has been studying the ice age for nearly 25 years, said the mammoth is about 140 centimetres long. "She has an incredible scientific discovery," he said. "The discovery of a mummified baby animal is something totally unprecedented.
A 30000-year-old mummified calf named 'Nun cho ga' by Alaskan natives is the most complete mammoth found in North America.
We are committed to respectfully handling Nun cho ga as she has chosen now to reveal herself to all of us," Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in Chief Roberta Joseph commenting the discovery. "The Yukon has always been an internationally renowned leader for ice age and Beringia research. The Yukon has a world-renowned fossil record of ice age animals.
A mummified, baby woolly mammoth was found in Klondike gold fields within the Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin traditional territory on Tuesday, the government said.
That dream came true today," stated Dr. Grant Zazula, a paleontologist in Yukon. "Nun cho ga is beautiful and one of the most incredible mummified ice age animals ever discovered in the world. Their extinction has been commonly attributed to humans, but 2021 research suggests the species disappeared because of climate change. We must as a people."
A whole baby woolly mammoth is dug up at a Yukon gold mine - a first for North America.
It said it was "the most complete mummified mammoth found in North America", and only the second such find in the world. The Yukon government compared it to Russia's discovery of a baby mammoth in the permafrost of Siberia in 2007. A whole baby woolly mammoth has been found frozen in the permafrost of north-western Canada - the first such discovery in North America.
A joint statement from the Government of Yukon and Tr'ondek Hwech'in First Nation said on June 21 that miners working on Eureka Creek in the Klondike gold ...
Officials called it “the most complete mummified mammoth found in North America.” The woolly mammoth appears to be a female and is about the same size as a 42,000-year-old infant woolly mammoth called “Lyuba,” who was discovered in Siberia in 2007. “Nun cho ga is beautiful and one of the most incredible mummified ice age animals ever discovered in the world. 2022-06-24 ( CTV Network) — Miners working in a gold field in Yukon have uncovered what is being called the “most complete” mummified woolly mammoth found to date in North America, officials announced on Friday. A joint statement from the Government of Yukon and Tr’ondek Hwech’in First Nation said on June 21 that miners working on Eureka Creek in the Klondike gold fields found a frozen, near complete woolly mammoth while excavating through permafrost in Tr’ondek Hwech’in traditional territory.
A whole baby woolly mammoth is dug up at a Yukon gold mine - a first for North America.
It said it was "the most complete mummified mammoth found in North America", and only the second such find in the world. The Yukon government compared it to Russia's discovery of a baby mammoth in the permafrost of Siberia in 2007. A whole baby woolly mammoth has been found frozen in the permafrost of north-western Canada - the first such discovery in North America.