Photo: Government of Yukon
A worker with a gold mining operation in Canada made a stunning discovery from the distant past when he unearthed the incredibly well-preserved remains of a baby woolly mammoth. The amazing find reportedly occurred last Tuesday afternoon as the company Treadstone Mining was in the process of excavating permafrost in the country's Yukon territory. The job came to a sudden stop, however, when a member of the crew noticed that they had stumbled upon something far more precious than gold in the form of a diminutive mummified carcass. Experts were quickly called to the scene to recover the remarkable find which is the just the second complete baby mammoth remains ever found in the world and the first in North America.
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