These are the most complete mummified mammoth remains found in North America.
A gold digger found mummified remains in the Yukon state of Canada baby woolly mammoth. The female mammoth was named Trondek Hvechin Nun Choga, which means “big baby animal” in the local dialect, Science Alert reports.
It is noted that these are the most complete mummified remains of a mammoth found in North America. The mammoth died and froze in permafrost during the Ice Age, about 30,000 years ago. It lived in the Yukon at a time when the area was also inhabited by wild horses, cave lions and giant steppe bison.
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Geologists unearthed a mammoth after his remains were found by a young gold digger. According to paleontologist Grant Zazul, the gold digger made “the most important paleontological discovery in North America.”
Scientists believe that the mammoth moved with its mother until it moved too far away from her and got stuck in the mud. Researchers have noted the excellent preservation of the animal's body, it has preserved toenails, skin, hair, torso and even intestines. In addition, the last meal in the form of grass was still present in the stomach.
“As a paleontologist of the ice age, I dreamed all my life to meet face to face with a real woolly mammoth. Today this dream has come true. Nun Choga is beautiful and is one of the most incredible ice age mummies ever found in the world, ”said Zazula.
Woolly mammoths comparable in size to elephants became extinct about 4,000 years ago. Early humans hunted these animals, ate them, and used bones and tusks to make jewelry and build homes.
Earlier, scientists at Stockholm University sequenced the DNA of 14 woolly rhinos and found out why they became extinct. animals. The great animals of antiquity were thought to be extinct due to the spread of humans and their hunting habits, but now it turns out that this is not the case.
