Frozen baby mammoth discovered in Yukon excites Canada

Key Facts

• Image source, Government of Yukon Image caption, It is the best-preserved woolly mammoth discovered in North America, experts say A whole baby woolly mammoth has been found frozen in the permafrost of north-western Canada - the first such discovery in North America.
• The Yukon government compared it to Russia's discovery of a baby mammoth in the permafrost of Siberia in 2007.
• It said it was "the most complete mummified mammoth found in North America", and only the second such find in the world.
• It is about the same size as the Siberian baby Lyuba found in 2007, which was some 42,000 years old, the Yukon government said in a press release.

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