Pictures Claims to Show Remains of 30,000-Year-Old Baby Grandmother. Here’s what we know

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A picture actually shows the preserved remains of a mummy who died around 30,000 years ago.

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In late March 2024, a photo of it was shared Facebook who claimed that the remains of a mummy who died about 30,000 years ago and was “discovered by a Yukon gold miner” after spending thousands of years preserved in permafrost. Other versions of the claim have been shared on social media platforms including Instagram and Redditfor example the post below which gained more than 50,000 votes:

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A joint news release published on June 24, 2022, by the government of Yukon and the government of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation of Canada announced the discovery of the “nearly complete, mummified woolen mummy” (archive) three days earlier.

Miners in the Eureka Creek Region, located in the western part of the territory two hours south of Dawson City, which reportedly exposed the frozen mammal and dug through permafrost. Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin elders named the giant calf “Nun Cho Ga,” which in the Hän language means “child of a large animal.”

Although the Yukon has an extensive fossil record of ice animals that once roamed the region, mummified remains with skin and hair are rarely found,” the statement said. Placer mining in the region uses water and gravity to extract gold and other minerals. during these processes, fossils are also found.

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It is estimated that Nun Cho Ga was between 30 and 35 days old when she died. It is said to be the most complete mummified mummy found in North America.

The frozen mammoth was recovered by geologists from the Yukon Geological Survey and the University of Calgary. They determined through a quick evaluation that it was frozen during the ice age, more than 30,000 years ago. At the time, Nun Cho Ga would have lived with other nomadic animals, including wild horses, cave lions and giant steppe bison.

“Nun is so beautiful and one of the most incredible ice age animals ever found on Earth. I’m excited to get to know her more,” said Yukon paleontologist Grant Zazula in a. statement at the time of discovery.

Nun Cho Ga is about the same size as the 42,000-year-old woolly mummy Lyuba, discovered in Siberia in 2007. Calf partial mammal named Ice It was found in 1948 at a gold mine in the interior of Alaska.

“Something was looking at me!” said the finder Nun Cho Ga during July 2022 technical briefingadding that at first he thought she was a buffalo.

“He looked like he died a week ago,” said another miner.

The woolly mammal was a large, furry elephant that lived on the vast steppe of the ice age Yukon, according to the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Center. The woolly mammoth became extinct on the North American mainland about 12,000 years ago when the climate warmed during the last ice age. However, woolly mammoths lived on remote Arctic islands off the coast of Siberia until about 4,000 years ago.

It is believed that woolly mammals made their way to North America from Asia through the Bering land bridgewhich once connected the continents.

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After almost two years in a freezer, No Cho Ga was transferred to the Canadian Conservation Institute in Ottawa for preservation, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported in March 2024. Yukon News reported at the time the massive remains were returned to the traditional territory where they were found.

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