The number of mammoth skeletons recovered at an airport construction site north of Mexico City has risen to at least 200, with a large number still to be excavated, experts said Thursday. Paleontologist Joaquin Arroyo Cabrales said the airport site "will be a very important site to test hypotheses" about the mass extinction of mammoths. The site near Mexico City now appears to have outstripped the Mammoth Site at Hot Springs, S.D. — which has about 61 sets of remains — as the world's largest find of mammoth bones. Paleontologists' tools sit on a table amid work to preserve the skeleton of a mammoth that was discovered at the construction site of Mexico City’s new airport.

Source: CBC News September 04, 2020 12:16 UTC