The head paleontologist for the Yukon government told local newspaper The Whitehorse Star that it is a 'super-exciting' discovery that sparked many questions.
Woolly mammoths roamed North America and Eurasia during the Ice Age and mostly went extinct around 10,000 years ago. Gold miners have discovered several partial woolly mammoths skeletons at Little Flake Mine near Dawson City in Yukon, Canada.