In a rare find, miners in the Klondike gold mining district in Canada’s far north have unearthed the mummified remains of a nearly complete baby woolly mammoth.

The mammoth carcass was discovered on June 21 during miners excavating permafrost south of Dawson city in the Canadian province of Yukon, bordering the US state of Alaska. This area previously belonged to the ancient nation of Tr’ondek Hwech’in.

Geologists at the Yukon Geological Survey and the University of Calgary determined that the mammoth – named “Nun cho ga” (meaning large animal) – was female and was frozen in ice. Ice Age, more than 30,000 years ago – a time when woolly mammoths roamed the said area along with wild horses, mountain lions and giant steppe bison.

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Paleontologist Grant Zazula emphasized that the “Nun cho ga” mammoth – still intact with skin and fur – is one of the most amazing mummified animals ever discovered in the world.

Meanwhile, the government of Yokon said that this province currently possesses a list of world-famous fossil records of animals that lived during the Ice Age, but scientists have rarely excavated them. mummies with skin and hair.

According to scientists, this rare discovery marks the most complete and best preserved mammoth body found for the first time in North America.

This discovery is reminiscent of the incident where part of a baby mammoth – named Effie – was found in a gold mine in Alaska in 1948.

Or the most recent was the discovery of the body of a baby mammoth, named Lyuba, in the permafrost in the Siberian region of Russia in 2007. This mammoth dates back to 42,000 years ago./.