A near-perfectly mummified baby woolly mammoth thought to be more than 30,000 years old has been accidentally unearthed by a gold miner in Yukon, north-west Canada.
It was a young miner, digging through the northern Canadian permafrost in the seemingly aptly named Eureka Creek, who sounded the alarm when his front-end loader struck something unexpected in the Klondike gold fields.
What he had stumbled upon would later be described by the territory’s paleontologist as “one of the most incredible mummified ice age animals ever discovered in the world”: a stunningly preserved carcass of a baby woolly mammoth thought to be more than 35,000 years old.
“She’s perfect and she’s beautiful,” Yukon paleontologist Grant Zazula told Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
“She has a trunk. She has a tail. She has tiny
Miners in Canada discovered a frozen mummified baby mammoth during one of their excavations for gold near Klondike, a city in Yukon, last week, according to the provincial government.
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