Animals You'll be happy are Extinct.

The Yukon Province in Northern Canada is home to many archaeological sites that reveal the history of the region's inhabitants. One of the most interesting sites is the thawed ice patches, where archaeologists have found ancient tools and remains of giant animals that lived tens or even hundreds of thousands of years ago.

Among the discoveries in the thawed ice patches are ancient tools used by the region's indigenous population to hunt caribou thousands of years ago. One such tool is the atlatal spear, which was used until the year 847 when it was replaced by bows and arrows. The spear is about two meters long and is perfectly preserved, with the wooden base still intact and feathers visible in the tail of the dart. The sap that was used as glue to attach the stone point to the wood shaft can still be seen on the spear. The atlatal spear was thrown with the help of a special device called an atoladl, which was made of wood or deer antlers and used during hunting. The idol functions as a lever, allowing hunters to hit a target the size of a dinner plate from about 20 meters away.

Not only weapons and tools have been found in the Yukon ice but also rare household items. One of the most remarkable finds is a leather moccasin over 1500 years old that belonged to one of the caribou hunters. The moccasin is particularly special because organic materials such as leather and wood decompose quickly, and finding an almost undamaged item is rare. The ice patches of the Yukon, which are included in the UNESCO world heritage list, have layered ice that has remained undisturbed over millennia, preserving artifacts buried under it.

However, the melting ice in the Yukon is raising concerns among locals, who have long believed that creatures thawed out of the ice and hunted people. While scientists have found remains of prehistoric megafauna and giant animals in the ice patches, some local legends suggest that something sinister may be lurking in the ice.

One of the prehistoric animals found in the ice patches is the megalonics, a giant sloth that lived during the pleistocene epoch. It reached a length of three meters and weighed about a thousand kilograms. Fortunately, giant sloths were herbivores, otherwise, other species would have had no chance of survival. Another prehistoric animal found in the ice patches is the giant beaver, which is considered the largest rodent in history. It was almost two meters long and weighed about a hundred kilograms. Scientists suggest that unlike modern beavers, it did not build dams and fed on water plants like modern muskrats. Why it needed those enormous incisors is still a mystery.

In 2008, gold miners found a pile of bones of various Ice Age animals, including an extinct camel species, in Hunker Creek. The camel family actually originated in North America about 40 million years ago and was split into camels and llamas. The ancestors of camels migrated across the Bering Strait, while the predecessors of llamas moved to South America. The find from Hunker Creek proves that some camels migrated to the north of the American continent and remained there until the end of the Ice Age. The extreme cold of the Yukon did not seem to bother them at all.

While the discovery of prehistoric animals and ancient tools is fascinating, locals' concerns about something more sinister in the melting ice cannot be ignored. In 1897, during the Klondike Gold Rush, French writer Georgette Dupuy and a group of gold miners discovered strange footprints while hunting moose. None of the hunters could determine which animal the footprints belonged to.