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"Beautiful," said the baby woolly mammoth.

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