[HN Gopher] Frozen baby woolly mammoth discovered in Yukon gold ... ___________________________________________________________________ Frozen baby woolly mammoth discovered in Yukon gold fields Author : worldvoyageur Score : 26 points Date : 2022-06-25 11:35 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.cbc.ca) (TXT) w3m dump (www.cbc.ca) | iamben wrote: | Discussion yesterday: | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31877772 | rdtennent wrote: | Fossilized, not frozen. | galago wrote: | Not a fossil, mummified and/or preserved by cold or ground | conditions. That's actual tissue. | Geee wrote: | Mammoths aren't that old. The last one died apparently about | 4000 years ago. | koheripbal wrote: | The article specifically says it is NOT fossilized | OJFord wrote: | > A perfect storm of events has led to a once-in-a-lifetime | discovery for a gold miner, a First Nation, a veteran | paleontologist and a territory. | | Saying 'a First Nation' like that is equivalent to saying 'a | female' - which people also mistakenly say - or 'a British', | which nobody would say. | | 'Canadian' happens to be both adjective and (proper) noun; that | doesn't mean everything is, eh. | lolinder wrote: | This use of "a First Nation" is meant to refer to the group of | people, not an individual. I believe it's equivalent to saying | in the US "a Native American tribe". ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-06-26 23:00 UTC)