{"id":15946,"date":"2022-07-27T12:36:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T10:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/?p=124729"},"modified":"2022-07-27T12:55:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T10:55:10","slug":"mummified-baby-mammoth-unearthed-by-canadian-miners","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/rss_feed\/mummified-baby-mammoth-unearthed-by-canadian-miners\/","title":{"rendered":"Mummified baby mammoth unearthed by Canadian miners"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Jason Goodyer\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 27 July 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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For palaeontologists this is a discovery far better than striking gold: miners working in The Yukon in northwestern Canada have uncovered a frozen baby mammoth while excavating permafrost.<\/p>\n

The animal has been named Nun cho ga<\/em>, which means \u2018big baby animal\u2019 in the native language of the Tr\u02bcond\u00ebk Hw\u00ebch\u02bcin \u2013 the First Nations people that occupy the territory where it was found.<\/p>\n

Geologists from the Yukon Geological Survey and the University of Calgary say she is thought to be female and more than 30,000 years old.<\/p>\n

Many fossils of Ice Age animals have previously been discovered in The Yukon but mummified remains with intact skin and hair, as seen on Nun cho ga<\/em>, are incredibly rare.<\/p>\n

In fact, Nun cho ga<\/em> is the best-preserved mummified woolly mammoth yet to be found in North America.<\/p>\n

She was found by miners working in the Eureka Creek area of the Klondike gold fields on the northwestern coast of Canada \u2013 an area that played a key role in the gold rush of the 19th Century.<\/p>\n

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