Gold diggers find mammoth chick in Canada – “This is North America’s most important paleontological discovery”

Miners at the Klondike goldfields have found an almost completely preserved mummified woolly bullfighter in the Yukon in northern Canada.

The frozen chick was found in an indigenous area dug through permafrost last Tuesday. The animal is believed to be female and over 30,000 years old.

Woolly mammals roamed North America during the Ice Age alongside wild horses, large cave lions, and giant arobiison.

The female boy now found was named Nun cho ga. It means “great animal baby” in the indigenous language of Tr’ondek Hwech.

According to a Yukon administration release, this is the best-preserved wool mammoth found in North America. Many glacial fossils have been excavated from the Yukon area, but remains containing skin and hair are rare.

– It has a snout, it has a tail, it has small ears. Kärsä has a small gripping head with which it has been able to collect grass, Zazula describes the discovery, according to the CBC.

Zazula estimates that the pup was about 30 days old when he died.

The mammoth is about 140 centimeters long, which makes it a little bigger than the mammoth cub found in Siberia.

An estimated 42,000-year-old mummified wool mammoth known as Lyuba was excavated from Siberian permafrost in 2007.

The wool mammoth was the size of its relative, the African elephant, meaning it could weigh up to six tons. From North America, mammoths became extinct after the last ice age 5,600 years ago.

The last mammoths in the world lived 4,000 years ago on the island of Wrangler in the Arctic Ocean. The cause of extinction is thought to be changes in the environment and climate, as well as the entry of people into their habitats.