30,000-year-old frozen mammoth baby found in Canada

In the last week a his baby mammoth Wool was found in North America in the permafrost of the Yukon region of Canada. – permafrost or permafrost is a soil in the earth’s crust consisting of ice, earth, and permanently frozen rocks. According to the researchers, the mummified mammoth calf more than 30 thousand years.

The baby is 1.4 meters long and named “Sister cho ga”, or “large baby animal” in the indigenous language of the region (Hän). Based on the data analyzed, the researchers also suggest that the specimen was female and was only a month old when it died.

The prehistoric animal was found by Canadian miners while digging gold in Klondike, Yukon Territory. After the discovery, geologists from the University of Calgary and the Yukon Geological Survey were called in to examine the find.

Scientists suggest that “Nun cho ga” died by losing her mother and being trapped in the mud until she drowned. Researchers believe that if he had lived longer and had grown like an ordinary mammoth, he would have reached 4 meters in height and had giant tusks.

“As an ice age paleontologist, it was one of my life’s dreams to face a real woolly mammoth. That dream came true today. Nun cho ga is very beautiful and one of the most amazing ice age mummified animals ever discovered. Yukon Government Department of Tourism and Culture paleontologist Grant Zazula said.

As part of the Nun cho ga rescue, the baby woolly mammoth found in the permafrost at Klondike this week (on Solstice and Indigenous Peoples’ Day!) was the most exciting scientific thing I’ve ever been a part of. https://t.co/WnGoSo8hPk pic.twitter.com/JLD0isNk8Y

— Prof Dan Shugar (@WaterSHEDLab) 24 June 2022

extinct mammoths

The scientists say the find is significant because of the calf’s condition and is considered the best-preserved woolly mammoth in North America. The animal is even compared to another 42,000-year-old mammoth found under the Siberian ice in Russia in 2017.

By live science, woolly mammoths walked alongside wild horses, cave lions and giant bison in different parts of North America, Europe and Asia. About 5000 years ago, mammoths went extinct.