Nun Cho Ga Explained
Nun Cho Ga is a mummified ice age specimen of a woolly mammoth older than 30,000 years (upper Pleistocene)[1] [2]
Discovery
It was found by gold miners on June 21, 2022, in the Un Klondike area of Yukon in northern Canada. The find site belongs to Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin First Nation. The mammoth baby, thought to be female, was named Nun Cho Ga, meaning "Big Baby Animal" in the Hän language spoken by the Indigenous peoples of the area. It is thought to be the same size as Lyuba, the 42,000-year-old Siberian baby Mammoth found in Siberia in 2007.[3] [4]
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: 2022-07-01 . Gold Miners Accidentally Discover First Baby Woolly Mammoth in North America . 2022-07-04 . My Modern Met . en.
- Web site: Woolly Mammoth Calf Discovered in Yukon Permafrost Sci-News.com . 2022-07-04 . Breaking Science News Sci-News.com . 27 June 2022 . en-US.
- Web site: 2022-06-26 . Gold miner in Canada finds mummified 35,000-year-old baby woolly mammoth . 2022-07-04 . the Guardian . en.
- Web site: Mummified baby woolly mammoth found nearly perfectly preserved with skin and hair . 2022-07-04 . TimesNow . 27 June 2022 . en.
