প্রকাশ: 26/06/2022
A whole baby woolly mammoth has been found frozen in the
permafrost of north-western Canada - the first such discovery in North
America.
The mummified ice age mammoth is thought to be more than
30,000 years old. It was found by gold miners in Yukon's Klondike region on
Tuesday.
The area of the find belongs to the Tr'ondek Hwech'in First
Nation.
The Yukon government compared it to Russia's discovery of a
baby mammoth in the permafrost of Siberia in 2007.
It said it was "the most complete mummified mammoth
found in North America", and only the second such find in the world.
The baby, thought to be female, has been named Nun cho ga,
meaning "big baby animal" in the Han language spoken by Native
Americans in the area.
"Nun cho ga is beautiful and one of the most incredible
mummified ice age animals ever discovered in the world," said Yukon
palaeontologist Grant Zazula.
It is about the same size as the Siberian baby Lyuba found
in 2007, which was some 42,000 years old, the Yukon government said in a press
release.
It is the best-preserved woolly mammoth discovered in North
America. The partial remains of a mammoth calf, named Effie, were found in 1948
at a gold mine in neighbouring Alaska.
CBC News says Nun cho ga was unearthed after a miner called
his boss over to examine something that was hit by his bulldozer in the mud at
Eureka Creek, south of Dawson City.
- BBC
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