"Beautiful," said the baby woolly mammoth.

A well-preserved woolly mammoth baby was found in Yukon.

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Breaking News: Yukon, a territory in Canada, and Tr'ondk Hwch'in, a First Nation band, announced late last week (June 24, 2022) that miners in the area had found a whole, mummified baby woolly mammoth that was 30,000 years old. Only two have ever been found in the whole world. And it's the first and most complete find of its kind in North America.

The baby woolly mammoth was found by miners working for the Treadstone Mining company. They found her in the Klondike gold fields, which are in the territory of the Tr'ondk Hwch'in. The following is what Yukon and Tr'onddk Hwch'in said in a joint statement:

Miners digging through the permafrost on Eureka Creek came across the frozen woolly mammoth. This is an important find for Tr'ondk Hwch'in and the Yukon Government. Elders from Tr'ondk Hwch'in gave the mammoth calf the name Nun cho ga, which in the Han language means "big baby animal."

Ice age animals left behind fossils in the Yukon that are known all over the world. But it's rare to find mummified bodies with skin and hair. Nun cho ga is North America's most complete mummified mammoth.

Researchers from the Yukon Geological Survey and the University of Calgary said that the baby girl probably died and was buried in permafrost during the last ice age, which was more than 30,000 years ago. Elders from the First Nation Trondk Hwchin gave the calf the name "Nun cho ga," which in the Han language means "big baby animal."

"As a palaeontologist who studies the ice age, it has been one of my lifelong dreams to meet a real woolly mammoth. "That dream came true today," Grant Zazula, a palaeontologist for the Yukon government, said in a statement on Friday.

What's next for the baby woolly mammoth?

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In the coming months, Tr'ondk Hwch'in and the Government of Yukon say they will work together to preserve and learn more about Nun cho ga in a respectful way. They will then share these stories and facts with the people of Dawson City, Yukon, and the scientific community around the world.

Researchers say that this is only the second time that a whole mammoth calf has been found. In Siberia in 2007, a separate, nearly whole baby mammoth named "Lyuba" was found. In 1948, parts of a mammoth calf were found in an Alaskan gold mine. This was a long time ago.

The researchers said that studying the remains of Nun cho ga could help them learn more about the lives and habits of woolly mammoths. They also said that the mummified calf could tell us more about cave lions and giant steppe bison, which lived in the Yukon during the Ice Age. 

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