Miners in the Klondike goldfields, in the snowy far north of Canada, have made a rare discovery. They have dug up the mummified remains of a nearly complete baby woolly mammoth.
Members of the Tr'ondek Hwech'in First Nation, who are the local native people, have named the calf Nun Cho Ga. It means "big baby animal."
Palaeontologist Grant Zazula says the little mammoth, which still has its skin and hair, is beautiful.
"It is one of the most incredible mummified Ice Age animals ever discovered in the world," he says. "I am excited to get to know it more."
The baby mammoth's remains were discovered while miners were digging down through permafrost (frozen ground) in Canada's Yukon territory, which is next to the US state of Alaska.
The animal is probably female and would have died during the Ice Age, more than 30,000 years ago. That is when woolly mammoths roamed this region. They shared the land with wild horses, cave lions and giant bison.
The discovery is the first nearly complete and best-preserved mummified woolly mammoth found in North America.
Part of a mammoth calf, named Effie, was found in 1948 at a gold mine in Alaska.
A 42,000-year-old mummified baby woolly mammoth, named Lyuba, was also discovered in Siberia in 2007. Lyuba and Nun Cho Ga are about the same size.
The Yukon government says that the Yukon is "world-renowned for fossils of Ice Age animals, but mummified remains with skin and hair are rarely discovered."
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