30.000-year-old Baby Mammoth Found in Canada

VIVA – Recently, on Tuesday, June 21, 2022 the gold miners in the Klondike Yukon region, Canada found a rare and big discovery, namely the mummy of a baby Mammoth which is estimated to be more than 30,000 years old. The area of ??the discovery is believed to be in the territory of the Tr'ondek Hwech'in tribe.

The baby mammoth is believed to be female, scientists have given the name Nun Cho Ga, which means "big baby animal". This discovery is the second discovery. 

Previously, a 42,000-year-old mummified baby woolly mammoth, known as Lyuba, was also discovered in Siberia in 2007. Lyuba and Nun Cho Ga are roughly the same size, according to the Yukon government.

Woolly mammoth, which has the Latin name Mammuthus primigenius, is one of the mammoth species that lived during the ice age, precisely in the Pleistocene era. The Woolly Mammoth became extinct about 12,000 years ago.

It was a rare discovery because the baby mammoth is still in almost perfectly. There are still a few strands of fur, tusks, nails and others.

Quoting from the BBC, Paleontologist scientist, Grant Zazula said that this discovery was the most amazing in history.

"Nun Cho Ga looks beautiful and is one of the animal mummification discoveries from the Prehistoric Ice Age ever found in the world," he explained.

This discovery was accidental, when the bulldozer of the gold miners they were using hit something in the mud. They immediately contacted their superiors, who immediately contacted the Yukon Government regarding the discovery.

The discovery of this ancient animal marks the first almost complete and well-preserved mummy of a woolly mammoth found in North America.