The discovery was made on June 21, 2022 by miners of the mining company working at the gold mines on the
Geologists examined the remains of a frozen mammothand tentatively suggested that Nong cho ga died and was frozen in the permafrost during the last ice age about 30,000 years ago. The researchers note that the found cub is a female and she was from 30 to 35 days old at the time of death.
Photo: Yukon government
Fossils discovered in the YukonIce Age animals, but mummified remains with skin and hair are rarely found. Nong cho ga is the second fully preserved baby woolly mammoth found in the world. The first is the baby mammoth Lyuba, discovered in Yamal in 2007.
“She has a trunk. She has a tail.She has tiny ears. She has a small prehensile end of her trunk with which she can grab grass. She's perfect and beautiful," paleontologist Grant Zazula, who researched Noon cho ga, said in an interview with CBC-Radio Canada.
Photo: Yukon Government
Researchers from the Tshondeek-Hwechin community, together with the Yukon government, continue to study the mammoth.Geologists hope that the preserved remains will provide a glimpse of the time when Nung Cho Ga roamed the Yukon with wild horses, cave lions and giant steppe bison.
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