A 30,000-year-old mammoth in northern Canada has been discovered. Will ancient viruses in the permafrost take the opportunity to awaken? Why was the mammoth discovered, and could its appearance be a warning? what on earth is it? For us, is it something to be thankful for? Accordi

A 30,000-year-old mammoth was discovered in northern Canada. Will ancient viruses in the permafrost take the opportunity to awaken? Why did

discover the mammoth? Is its appearance a warning?

What on earth is going on? Is

a thing worth celebrating for us?

According to a report by CNN on June 26, 2022, a baby mammoth mummy that had been frozen for more than 30,000 years was discovered in a gold mining area in Canada.

This is the first nearly intact mammoth mummy found in North America so far, exciting all experts.

On Twitter, geomorphologist Dan Schicka described the baby elephant as "incredibly intact" with its toenails, skin, hair, trunk and intestines.

and wrote: "This is the most exciting scientific project I have ever participated in, bar none."

According to our understanding, we have learned that this mummy was found in the traditional territory of Trendek Hvecin, It was because miners in Canada's Klondike region were searching for gold in the permafrost.

Paleontologists also identified that this was a 30,000-year-old mammoth. This 1.4-meter-long female mammoth cub was only about 1 month old when it died. The time of death was about 4 o'clock BP. Twenty thousand years ago.

Scientists named it "Nun cho ga", which means "big baby animal".

The most special thing about it is that its body is so completely preserved in the frozen soil. In short, it looked like he had just died.

I think everyone has a certain understanding of Mammoth. Even if you don’t, it doesn’t matter. I will answer the questions for you.

The mammoth is a prehistoric creature , also known as woolly mammoth . It is Chordata , subphylum Vertebrates, Mammalia , Eutheria , Proboscidea , True Proboscis suborder, Elephantidae , an animal of the genus Mammoth that is adapted to cold climates.

It was once one of the largest elephants in the world and one of the largest mammals that ever lived on land. Among them, the steppe mammoth weighed up to 12 tons. It is a behemoth of Ice Age .

The first recorded artificial traps for mammoths in the world were on November 6, 2019.

Mammoth remains were found in an artificial trap in the Mexican city of Turtepec.

So what caused the extinction of mammoths?

First, changes in the environment; this is the elimination law of nature, and is not unfair to mammoths.

You must know that a similar situation occurred at the end of the Tertiary Period of the Cenozoic Era, when a large number of primitive mammals became extinct.

They were replaced by the ancestors of modern animals, or because of rising temperatures in the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere.

Mammoths that originally lived in grassland areas and fed on grass were forced to migrate due to the temperature. During their migration to places further north with lower temperatures, they starved to death or died of disease.

It can be said that when the woolly mammoths began to become extinct, the last ice age had already begun to end.

Second, inbreeding; in April 2014, new research pointed out that some unusual features on mammoth fossils excavated from the North Sea indicate that inbreeding may have accelerated the extinction of mammoths 10,000 years ago.

Since the population size decreased, mammoths began inbreeding.

Frietson Galis, a paleontologist at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands, describes the vicious cycle of inbreeding and its vulnerability as an "extinction vortex."

Because in the new habitat, mammoths no longer live in groups as before, even if most of the people living together are close relatives.

Third, the hunting of ancient humans; in the history of human evolution, humans used the fur of mammoths to make winter clothes.

Originally the two parties could coexist peacefully, but as humans evolved, they learned a lot of knowledge.

Therefore, mammoths became their target over time. Mammoths were a source of meat for humans at that time, and their tusks could also be used to make spears and other weapons.

Research shows that the mammoths were completely extinct during the 10,000-year thaw period, and humans may have played an important role in this.

People once dug up mammoth fossils in a former swamp fossil site in France, which also marked the end of the Quaternary Ice Age.

But do you really think the appearance of frozen mammoths is a good thing?

is not.

This means that the earth's surface will become hotter and hotter, causing Arctic permafrost to melt rapidly, especially in the northern hemisphere summer, where large-scale melting occurs.

Once the permafrost melts, we will not only see mammoths frozen in the permafrost, but also many extinct animals will appear.

There is one more thing we need to be aware of. The permafrost layer contains not only animals, but also a variety of viruses and bacteria. They have "tenacious" vitality. As long as the permafrost melts, it means that these viruses and bacteria will wake up and may cause harm to the world again.

So at this time, we have to be vigilant.

So the question is, can mammoths be resurrected with our current technology?

According to current technology, we can obtain mammoths through cloning. But we can't go against the will, and even if we want to resurrect the mammoth, it will cost a lot of money.

This is especially true in terms of food. If you open "WOW Wonderful World Prehistoric Animals", you can know that mammoths eat about 225 kilograms of plants every day. For example, the imperial mammoth was one of the larger mammoths, reaching a height of 4.2 meters.

Compared with other animals that lived in the Ice Age, the tall bodies of the imperial mammoths really lived up to their namesake, with a majestic and imperial look.

Due to their huge size, the imperial mammoths had to eat 300 kilograms of food every day. And in the face of such high costs, it is really unnecessary.

Do you remember what Russian official Nikolai Korchunov said? He praised: The melting of permafrost may lead to the resurrection of ancient viruses and bacteria, posing an extreme threat to mankind.

If the temperature gets higher and higher, the permafrost will melt faster, so we have to be vigilant at this time.