natural history
Mummified baby mammoth found almost perfectly preserved in Canada

Mummified baby mammoth found almost perfectly preserved in Canada

A truly incredible find In an incredible natural history discovery, a mummified baby mammoth has been unearthed in Canada almost perfectly preserved in ice. According to the Yukon government, the frozen carcass of the infant woolly mammoth was found by a miner within the Treadstone Mine of the Klondike gold fields in Yukon, Canada on […]

4 years ago

‘Fossil fish’ known as ‘Old Fourlegs’, once thought extinct, found alive

‘Fossil fish’ known as ‘Old Fourlegs’, once thought extinct, found alive

The fossil fish known as a coelacanth was thought to be extinct. Now a new population has been found near Madagascar You’d be forgiven for never having heard of the coelacanths: though they are a 420 million-year-old species that predate the dinosaurs, the ‘fossil fish’, primarily found off the east coast of Africa and Indonesia, […]

5 years ago

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