{"id":141091,"date":"2022-06-25T15:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T20:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/rare-mummified-baby-woolly-mammoth-with-skin-and-hair-found-in-canada"},"modified":"2022-06-25T15:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T20:22:19","slug":"rare-mummified-baby-woolly-mammoth-with-skin-and-hair-found-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/rare-mummified-baby-woolly-mammoth-with-skin-and-hair-found-in-canada","title":{"rendered":"Rare mummified baby woolly mammoth with skin and hair found in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rare-mummified-baby-woolly-mammoth-with-skin-and-hair-found-in-canada2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A gold miner in Canada discovered a near complete mummified baby woolly mammoth Tuesday, according to the Yukon government and Tr\u02bcond\u00ebk Hw\u00ebch\u02bcin, a local traditional territory. The female baby was named Nun cho ga, which means \u201cbig baby animal\u201d in the H\u00e4n language.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yukon.ca\/en\/news\/mummified-baby-woolly-mammoth-found-gold-miner-klondike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the government\u2019s press release said<\/a>. She\u2019s estimated to have frozen during the Ice Age, over 30,000 years ago. While alive, she likely roamed the Yukon with wild horses, cave lions and giant steppe bison.<\/p>\n<p>It added that the discovery was \u201csignificant\u201d and rare, even for an area like Yukon, which has \u201ca world-renowned fossil record of ice age animals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gold miner in Canada discovered a near complete mummified baby woolly mammoth Tuesday, according to the Yukon government and Tr\u02bcond\u00ebk Hw\u00ebch\u02bcin, a local traditional territory. The female baby was named Nun cho ga, which means \u201cbig baby animal\u201d in the H\u00e4n language. the government\u2019s press release said. She\u2019s estimated to have frozen during the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}