Nun Cho Ga is a mummified ice age specimen of a woolly mammoth older than 30,000 years (upper Pleistocene)[1][2]

Discovery

It was found by gold miners on June 21, 2022, in the Un Klondike area of Yukon in northern Canada. The find site belongs to Tr'ondek Hwech's First Nation. The mammoth baby, thought to be female, was named Nun Cho Ga, meaning "Big Baby Animal" in the Hän language spoken by the Indigenous peoples of the area. It is thought to be the same size as Lyuba, the 42,000-year-old Siberian baby Mammoth found in Siberia in 2007.[3][4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Gold Miners Accidentally Discover First Baby Woolly Mammoth in North America". My Modern Met. 2022-07-01. Retrieved 2022-07-04.
  2. ↑ "Woolly Mammoth Calf Discovered in Yukon Permafrost | Sci-News.com". Breaking Science News | Sci-News.com. 27 June 2022. Retrieved 2022-07-04.
  3. ↑ "Gold miner in Canada finds mummified 35,000-year-old baby woolly mammoth". the Guardian. 2022-06-26. Retrieved 2022-07-04.
  4. ↑ "Mummified baby woolly mammoth found nearly perfectly preserved with skin and hair". TimesNow. 27 June 2022. Retrieved 2022-07-04.
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