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#Repost///@national_archaeology: A 30,000-year-old baby woolly mammoth emerges from the permafrost in the Yukon in good conditionTravis Mudry, a miner working in Canada's Yukon territory's Klondike goldfields, hacked into a wall of permafrost, or permanently frozen earth, on a rainy June morning. The thick mixture of ice soil must be removed by miners, a technique known as placer mining, in order to access the gold resources buried in the stream beds.A sizable piece of the frozen ground suddenly broke off the wall. Strangely, the remains of a dark, shiny animal with short legs poked out from the sludge. Mudry started examining the animal, noticing its skin, fur, and stub of a tail, suspecting he had discovered a mummified newborn buffalo. After that, he saw a trunk.Brian McCaughan, the general manager and chief operating officer of the privately held gold mining company Treadstone Equipment, was Mudry's boss. McCaughan immediately gave the order to halt all work after taking one glance at the tiny animal, which was in such good condition it appeared as though it had just passed away. He started contacting experts after taking some pictures of the discovery.The Yukon government's paleontologist, Grant Zazula, received an email containing a picture of the frozen woolly mammoth, the most complete specimen discovered in North America to date, a half-hour later. She is stunning and one of the most amazing mummified Ice Age creatures ever found, according to Zazula.There was only one issue: June 21 was National Indigenous Peoples Day, a Yukon government holiday. Zazula was in Whitehorse, some six hours south of Dawson City from the location of the finding in Eureka Creek. (The Tr'ondk Hwch'in, a Yukon First Nation whose presence in the area dates back thousands of years, have the goldfields in their traditional territory.)Source : thearchaeologist.org website