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Mummified Baby Woolly Mammoth With Skin And Hair Found Nearly Perfectly Preserved

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Updated 12:12 1 Jul 2022 GMT+1Published 13:09 26 Jun 2022 GMT+1

Mummified Baby Woolly Mammoth With Skin And Hair Found Nearly Perfectly Preserved

A miner has discovered a near-complete mummified baby woolly mammoth

Poppy Bilderbeck

Poppy Bilderbeck

A miner has discovered a near complete mummified baby woolly mammoth.

The mammoth was discovered in the far north of Canada in the Klondike gold fields on 21 June, 2022.

It has since been named in the Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin's Hän language as Nun cho ga which translates to 'big baby animal'.

A near complete mummfied baby mammoth has been discovered.
Government of Yukon

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The mammoth was found with its skin and hair still intact.

It has been called 'beautiful and one of the most incredible mummified ice age animals ever discovered in the world' by palaeontologist Dr Grant Zazula.

"I don't know how to process it all right now, to be honest with you. It's amazing," he told CBC.

The mammoth was discovered close to Canada's border with Alaska in its Yukon territory in Dawson city.

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She was stumbled upon during an excavation project.

Woolly mammoths roamed the area over 30,000 years ago alongside cave lions, giant steppe bison and wild horses.

Nun cho ga is believed to have died during the ice age according to Dr Zazula as she was 'found in permafrost'.

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The palaeontologist predicts the mammoth died when she was around 30 to 35 days old.

She has also been identified as female.

The baby woolly mammoth is the best-preserved to ever be discovered in North America.

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She is also the first near-complete mummified remains of the animal to ever be found and the second-ever baby mummified mammoth to be found in the world.

"She has a trunk. She has a tail. She has tiny little ears. She has the little prehensile end of the trunk where she could use it to grab grass.

"She's perfect and she's beautiful," Dr Zazula said.

Michael Caldwell, a palaeontologist at the University of Alberta, reflected how it's a 'miracle of sorts' to have discovered a near-complete mammoth so well preserved.

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Particularly as the weather turned immediately after the discovery was made, a storm of which could have resulted in the mammoth being lost.

Caldwell called the discovery a 'scientific gold mine and simply a beautiful thing'.

"For all paleontologists, this is amazing, but for those who work on such things it is breathtaking," he reflected.

The mammoth's discovery is the 'most important discovery in paleontology in North America' according to Dr Zazula.

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The palaeontologist resolved: "It's going to take days and weeks and months to sink in and it's going to take days and weeks and months working with Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in to decide what we do and learn from this.

"[...] And this has been something that I've always dreamed of, to see one face to face. This week, that dream really came true."

If you have a story you want to tell, send it to UNILAD via [email protected]  

Featured Image Credit: Government Of Yukon

Topics: Animals, Science, World News

Poppy Bilderbeck
Poppy Bilderbeck

Poppy Bilderbeck is a Senior Journalist at LADbible Group. She graduated from The University of Manchester in 2021 with a First in English Literature and Drama, where alongside her studies she was Editor-in-Chief of The Tab Manchester. Poppy is most comfortable when chatting about all things mental health, is proving a drama degree is far from useless by watching and reviewing as many TV shows and films as possible and is such a crisp fanatic the office has been forced to release them in batches.

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