Nun Cho Ga Astonishes The Paleontologists

"She was only a few steps away from her mother when she ventured out for drinking water and eating grass and got stuck in the mud and probably getting stuck to burial was very very quick."

Every paleontologist tries hard to discover something ancient of which there is very scarce knowledge available previously. They keep digging into uninhabited lands far away from the rush of cities to bring something in limelight, that they discover once in their lifetime. This is their ultimate goal but the paleontologists of the world were stunned on June 21, 2022, when the gold miners in Northwest Canada suddenly found a well-preserved body of a Baby Woolly Mammoth.

The amazing thing about this discovery is that it is the whole body of a Baby Woolly Mammoth. This is only the second time in the world that someone has discovered this extinct species of the Elephantidae. The first to be found was another infant Woolly Mammoth, discovered in Siberia in 2007. It was named "Lyuba" and is expected to be 42,000 years old.

This is the most important discovery in the history of North America as it is the very first whole body of Woolly Mammoth that is discovered in the history of the region which once inhabited these giant animals. Although a few remains of a mammoth were found at another gold mine in Alaska, in 1948 it was not a whole body of a Woolly Mammoth.

Yukon is a Canadian Territory in North America. On 21st June, when a young minor was digging permafrost in Klondike Gold Mines in Yukon with his front-end loader, he struck something. He stopped and called his boss to have a look, the boss inspected and after that he called the paleontologists of the Yukon's government, to report this breathtaking discovery.

A government paleontologist, Dr. Grant Zazula expressed: "I don't know how to process it all right now, to be honest with you. It's amazing."

The discovered baby Woolly Mammoth has been named: "Nun cho ga" which means "Big Baby Animal" in the Han, which is a local language of Yukon. Nun cho ga has a tail, a trunk, tiny little ears, prehensile, toenails, and intestines. It is 140cm long, a little longer than Lyuba, which was discovered in Siberia.

According to Dr. Zazula, the geology of the site tells that Nun cho ga is expected to die between 35,000 and 40,000 years ago in the last ice age when she was only 30-35 days old. Geologists saw a piece of the intestine with a grass on it, which vaguely tells about the activity which Nun cho ga was doing just before she died.

Dr. Zazula speculated that she was only a few steps away from her mother when she ventured out for drinking water and eating grass and got stuck in the mud and probably getting stuck to burial was very very quick.

The discovery has the paleontologists in awe and astonished, and they are hopeful that studying the remains of Nun cho ga will help us better understand the lives and behaviors of Woolly Mammoths as well as other ice-era animals like Cave Lions and Steppe Bisons.