[HN Gopher] Frozen baby woolly mammoth discovered in Yukon gold ...
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       Frozen baby woolly mammoth discovered in Yukon gold fields
        
       Author : worldvoyageur
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2022-06-25 11:35 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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 (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.
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       | '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".
        
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