More than 100 mammoth skeletons have been identified spread across nearly 200 excavation sites, along with a mix of other Ice Age mammals, in the area destined to become the Mexican capital’s new commercial airport.
“Then over many years the same story repeated itself: The animals ventured too far, got trapped and couldn’t get their legs out of the muck,” said Manzanilla.
Workers of Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History work at a site where more than 100 mammoth skeletons have been identified, along with a mix of other ice age mammals, at an area where a new international airport is currently being built, in Zumpango, near Mexico City, Mexico on Sept. 8, 2020.
But the sheer amount of bones, including long, curling tusks - technically the animal’s front two teeth - have come as a shock.Once the excavations are finished, Manzanilla said the site, located about 30 miles north of downtown Mexico City, could rival others in the United States and Siberia as the planet’s biggest deposit of mammoth skeletons.
Today, the mostly dry landscape is dominated by the working-class neighborhoods and highways that spill out from Mexico City.
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