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Nun cho ga is a woolly mammoth calf perfectly preserved for an estimated 30,000 years in Alaska's permafrost. On June 21, 2022, a near complete, mummified baby woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) ...

Warning: This article contains graphic pictures. Reader discretion is advised. Stunning pictures show a female baby mammoth, dating back over 130,000 years, recently being dissected by Russian ...

This story appears in the May 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The mammoth herd approaches the rushing river. A calf ambles close to her mother’s huge legs, brushing their long, glossy hair ...