{"id":41255,"date":"2022-06-28T18:38:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T18:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/look-this-preserved-baby-mammoth-discovered-in-yukon-is-the-most-complete-find-in-north-america"},"modified":"2022-06-28T18:38:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T18:38:49","slug":"look-this-preserved-baby-mammoth-discovered-in-yukon-is-the-most-complete-find-in-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/look-this-preserved-baby-mammoth-discovered-in-yukon-is-the-most-complete-find-in-north-america","title":{"rendered":"LOOK: This Preserved Baby Mammoth Discovered in Yukon Is the &#8216;Most Complete Find&#8217; in North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Being part of the recovery of Nun cho ga, the baby woolly mammoth found in the permafrost in the Klondike this week (on Solstice and Indigenous Peoples&#8217; Day!), was the most exciting scientific thing I have ever been part of, bar none,&#8221; says Professor Dan Shugar.Prof. Shugar is a member of the team who arrived to document this incredible baby. Believed to be female, she&#8217;s a wholly intact woolly mammoth calf &#8211; the first of her kind ever discovered in North America.According to Shugar, the mammoth was discovered by a Yukon placer miner in the permafrost of northwestern Canada. The miner then called scientist Grant Zazula, &#8220;who put out call to any geologists in area to recover before it thawed,&#8221; Shugar adds. &#8220;We were incredibly lucky to be in Dawson with Jeff Bond &amp; Derek Cronmiller from Yukon Geological Survey. Was a fast drive down 60km of mining roads.&#8221;Being part of the recovery of Nun cho ga, the baby woolly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Being part of the recovery of Nun cho ga, the baby woolly mammoth found in the permafrost in the Klondike this week (on Solstice and Indigenous Peoples&#8217; Day!), was the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,348],"tags":[185],"class_list":["post-41255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-science","tag-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}