Allegation:
One image originally shows the preserved remains of a baby mammoth that died about 30,000 years ago.
Evaluation:
A photo was shared in late March 2024. Facebook claiming to show Remains of a baby mammoth that died approximately 30,000 years agoDiscovered by a Yukon gold miner“After being preserved in permafrost for thousands of years.” Other versions of the claim were also shared on social media platforms: instagram And redditlike to post More than 50,000 upvotes have been collected below:
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A. joint newsletter Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin, released by the Yukon government and the Canadian First Nation government on June 24, 2022, announced the discovery of a “nearly complete, mummified baby woolly mammoth” (Archive) three days ago.
Miners too Eureka Creek areaHe reportedly uncovered the frozen mammal while digging in permafrost in the western part of the area, located two hours south of Dawson City. Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin elders named the mammoth calf “Nun Cho Ga”, which means “big animal calf” in the Hän language.
Although Yukon has an extensive fossil record of ice age animals that once roamed the region, mummified remains with skin and hair “are rarely unearthed,” the statement said. Placer mining in the region uses water and gravity to uncover gold and other minerals; Fossils are also discovered during these processes.
It is estimated that Nun Cho Ga was 30 to 35 days old when she died. It is said to be the most complete mummified mammoth ever found in North America.
Yukon Geological Survey and University of Calgary geologists rescued the frozen mammoth. After a quick assessment, they determined that it had been frozen during the ice age, more than 30,000 years ago. At that time, Nun Cho Ga lived alongside other wandering animals, including wild horses, cave lions, and giant steppe bison.
Yukon paleontologist Grant Zazula said, “Nun cho ga is beautiful and one of the most incredible mummified ice age animals ever discovered in the world. I’m excited to get to know her more.” said. expression during exploration.
Nun Cho Ga is about the same size as the 42,000-year-old mummy Lyuba, the woolly mammoth. It was discovered in Siberia in 2007. A partial mammoth calf called Effie It was found in a gold mine in the interior of Alaska in 1948.
“Something was looking at me!” The discoverer of Nun Cho Ga said in July 2022: technical briefingHe added that at first he thought it was a buffalo.
“He looked like he had been dead for a week,” added another miner.
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— Yukon Beringia Interpretive Center (@yukonberingia) June 30, 2022
The woolly mammoth was a large, woolly elephant that lived in the mammoth steppes of the ice-age Yukon. Yukon Beringia Interpretive Center. Woolly mammoths became extinct in mainland North America about 12,000 years ago as the climate warmed during the last glacial period. But remote Arctic islands off the coast of Siberia were home to woolly mammoths until about 4,000 years ago.
Woolly mammoths are believed to have arrived by sea from Asia to North America. Bering land bridgeOnce connected continents
After being stored in the freezer for nearly two years, No Cho Ga was transported to the Canadian Conservation Institute in Ottawa for preservation. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Reported in March 2024. Yukon News reported at which time the mammoth remains would eventually be returned to the traditional site where they were unearthed.
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