Paleontologists often gather truckloads of fossils from the mines, but mummies are special and rare. Photos from inside the gold mines and the lab offer a glimpse at the ancient past. Miners are ...

Gold miners in the Yukon have made a habit of finding ancient fossils and mummified animals for scientists as their equipment plows through permafrost. Recent finds include a fully mummified woolly ...

Located in the historic Cadillac Hotel, the Klondike in Seattle bookends the legendary route from the Lower 48 states to the Yukon gold fields during the Gold Rush of the late 1890s. Seattle ...

In late March 2024, a photo was shared on Facebook that claimed to show the remains of a baby mammoth who died an estimated 30,000 years ago and were "discovered by a Yukon gold miner" after spending ...

How locals saw the Yukon Gold rush, and why Fairbanks, Alaska was named after a young “gold adventurer” from Petaluma. In Petaluma, during the Christmas Season of 1897, Sweed’s Great Bargain House, ...

In May 2024, a viral Reddit post in the r/beamazed subreddit claimed to show the 30,000-year-old remains of a baby mammoth, discovered in a Canadian gold mine. The post had received more than 25,000 ...