Mammoths News
Amid busy construction crews racing to build an airport in Mexico, scientists are unearthing more and more mammoth skeletons,
It has quickly become one of the world`s biggest concentrations of the now-extinct relative of modern elephants.
More than 100 mammoth skeletons have been identified spread across nearly 200 excavation sites, along with a mix of other Ice Age mammals.
The mammoth remains were found in the area where the new airport will have its control tower and runways.
The spread of humans around the world from Africa thousands of years ago wiped out big mammals in a shrinking trend that could make the cow the biggest mammal on Earth in a few centuries` time, a scientific study said on Thursday.
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