30,000 year old mummified baby woolly mammoth with skin and hair found in Canada, Paleontologist say it's a dream come to true

[Reformed J]

Found in the permafrost by gold mine workers last week.

@Omar del Sur @Taij4an is it also a plant?

Rare mummified baby woolly mammoth found in Canada

Palaeontologist says the mammoth is ‘one of the most incredible mummified ice age animals ever discovered in the world’.

www.aljazeera.com

It was a whole baby woolly mammoth, only the second one ever found in the world, and the first in North America.

"She has a trunk. She has a tail. She has tiny little ears. She has the little prehensile end of the trunk where she could use it to grab grass," said Zazula.

"She's perfect and she's beautiful."

 

[World]

Mammoths only went extinct 4000 years ago.

 

[Reformed J]

Mammoths only went extinct 4000 years ago.

Yeah, a diminutive subspecies lived on an island north of Chukotka. But the mainland types in Eurasia and North America died out 10,000 years ago with human hunting and mainly their dry steppe environment changing into boreal forests with eroding glaciers and warming.

 

[Idilinaa]

Amazing find. That's really up there with the 40k year old mummified Ice Age cave lion scientists have found. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...b-corpse-found-siberian-permafrost-180978403/

There is already a project underway of reviving the Woolly Mammoth, ever since they aquired it's frozen tissue and DNA. So they won't be extinct for long

 

[The alchemist]

Yo, this is sick. They can make a mammoth in a lab now that they have fresh non-degraded DNA material.

 

[Reformed J]

Yo, this is sick. They can make a mammoth in a lab now that they have fresh non-degraded DNA material.

Hopefully they've been taking proper storage precautions

 

[Cognitive]

I would still prefer a genetically modified chicken-saurus over this.

https://www.livescience.com/50886-scientific-progress-dino-chicken.html

You know, or a steppe lion.
Lethal carnivores with containment-breaching-tendencies are way cooler.