Nun cho ga, the baby wooly mammoth whose extraordinarily preserved remains caused a sensation after they were dug up by a miner near Dawson City, Yukon, last year, could soon be heading to Ottawa — at least for a period.
The rare specimen — believed to be about 30,000 to 35,000 years old — has been stored in a walk-in freezer in Dawson City since its discovery. Now, the plan is to send it to the Canadian Conservation Institute in Ottawa to learn more about it.
“We need to preserve her. We need to respect her, and that’s in the plans — and we’re venturing down that road
