Miners Say Baby Woolly Mammoth Find in Yukon Is Biggest Event in Life so Far

Miners Say Baby Woolly Mammoth Find in Yukon Is Biggest Event in Life so Far
A view of Nun cho ga, the mummified woolly mammoth calf, is shown in a handout photo. The Canadian Press/HO-Government of Yukon
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Travis Delawski went out looking for gold but found something even more precious.

The miner for Treadstone Gold got in his excavator on June 21 just before lunch and set out for the river in Yukon’s Klondike fields where he began scratching the black earth.