Dan Shugar, PhD, associate professor in the Faculty of Science at the University of Calgary, and director of the Environmental Science Program, Department of Geoscience. “It was incredible to think this was an animal that died so long ago, but here it is, preserved so well that it still has hair on it – frankly, it was mind blowing,” says Dr. ![]() ![]() She looks like an infant caught in the middle of a nap – and from perfectly preserved toenails, skin and trunk, to the signature strands of hair, it is as close to meeting a living mammoth as one can get.īut this female baby Proboscidea closed her eyes for the last time some 30,000 years ago, and Tuesday’s discovery of the mummified woolly mammoth in the Yukon’s Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin Traditional Territory has left one University of Calgary scientist wide awake with excitement ever since.
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