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A whole baby woolly mammoth has been found frozen in the permafrost of north-western Canada - the first such discovery in North America. The mummified ice age mammoth is thought to be more than 30,000 years old. It was found by gold miners in Yukon's Klondike region on Tuesday. The area of the find belongs to the Tr'ondek Hwech'in First Nation.

The Yukon government compared it to Russia's discovery of a baby mammoth in the permafrost of Siberia in 2007. It said it was "the most complete mummified mammoth found in North America" and only the second such find in the world.

Dr Tori Herridge, an evolutionary biologist and Research Fellow at the Natural History Museum in London, says the baby mammoth has been named Nun cho ga, meaning "big baby animal" in the Han language spoken by Native Americans in the area. She says she's always amazed that animals that are extinct can be found in such amazing condition. A scientist believes a fragment of grass was found in her stomach, but that can be verified when the official autopsy results are known, and that she may have died after becoming mired in the sticky permafrost mud.

"She's absolutely beautiful. Anything that turns up after 30,000 years in that exquisite condition is always going to be special."

Photo: The whole baby woolly mammoth Credit: Yukon Government

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