Mummified baby mammoth discovered in Yukon

A mummified baby woolly mammoth has been found in the Klondike gold fields, the Yukon government announced Friday.

It said the animal found within Tr’ondek Hwech’in Traditional Territory earlier this week is the most complete and best preserved mammoth found in North America to date.

The territory said miners working on Eureka Creek uncovered the animal while excavating permafrost on Tuesday.

Geologists from the Yukon Geological Survey and University of Calgary who recovered the mammoth suggest it died and was frozen during the ice age, more than 30,000 years ago.