Credit, Yukon Government
The specimen is the best-preserved find to date in North America, experts say
A baby woolly mammoth was found frozen in permafrost in northwestern Canada.
This is the first discovery in North America.
The ice age mammoth mummy is believed to be over 30,000 years old.
The object was discovered by miners in the Klondike region in Yukon on Tuesday (21/6).
According to CBC News, a miner called his boss to check on something his excavator had crushed in the mud in Eureka Creek, south of Dawson City.
The discovery area belongs to the Tr'ondek Hwech'in First Nation.
The Yukon government compared the discovery with another discovery made in Russia, including the discovery of a baby mammoth, which was in the Siberian ice sheet in 2007.
The government says it is “the most complete mammoth mummy found in North America” and is the second such discovery in the world.
Credit, Yukon Government
The baby, who is believed to be a girl, was named Nun cho ga
It's about the same size as the Siberian baby, which is about 42,000 years old, the Yukon government said in a news release.
The baby, believed to be a girl, was named Nun cho ga, which means “big animal baby” in the Han language used by native people in the area.
“Nun cho ga is beautiful and one of the most amazing ice age animal mummies ever found in the world,” said paleontologist Grant Zazula.
Before Nun cho ga, partial remains of a mammoth calf were discovered in 1948 in a gold mine in Alaska.
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