The mummified remains of a baby mammoth woolly almost complete, with skin and hair intact, were found in gold mines in northern Canadain one of the great discoveries of these animals of the ice age.
“It is magnificent and is one of the most incredible ice age mummified animals discovered in the world,” paleontologist Grant Zazula was quoted as saying in a statement Friday from the government of the Yukon Territory, which borders Alaska.
What we know about the mummified mammoth
The specimen, a female, was found on Tuesday and named “Nun cho ga”, “big baby animal” in the native language, and its skin and hair are intact.
His remains were discovered beneath the permafrost, south of Dawson City, in the Yukon Territory.
The animal would have died more than 30 thousand years ago when the region was full of mammoths woolly, wild horses, cave lions and bison.
Is the first mammoth Mummified almost complete and so well preserved found in North America. A part of remains of a baby mammoth named Effie had been found in 1948 in an Alaskan gold mine, and in 2007 a 42,000-year-old specimen, called Liouba, the same size as the latter discovered, was found in Siberia.
“Mummified remains with skin and hair are rarely unearthed,” stressed the government of Yukon, a territory known throughout the world for its fossils of ice-age animals. (AFP)
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