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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Vishwam Sankaran

Mummified remains of 30,000 year old baby mammoth found in Canadian gold fields

Yukon Government

A miner working in Canada’s Klondike gold fields has found near-complete, mummified remains of a baby woolly mammoth that lived more than 30,000 years ago.

Indigenous people living in the region have named the mammoth calf Nun cho ga, meaning “big baby animal” in the Han language.

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