Mexico City was once the realm of the mammoth

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The giant pachyderms once roamed the Valley of Mexico.

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Crouching in the dirt, workers gingerly stripped away layers of sediment with brushes, picks and spatulas, revealing jagged vestiges of a lost world.

“I think it’s going to be very significant,” said Dr. Emily L. Lindsey, assistant curator and excavation site director at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum in Los Angeles. “These super-large accumulations of remains are not that common and represent a real scientific resource.”The species found here is the Columbian mammoth, which featured long, curved tusks and meandered across a broad range from present-day southern Canada to Central America.

The beasts coexisted with camels, horses and other so-called megafauna, as well as alongside Paleoamericans, the region’s first humans. The evidence suggests that nomads used torches and sticks to force the beasts into the 6-foot-deep pits. Once the animals perished, the early Americans butchered the carcasses with tools probably crafted from mammoth bones.Then they feasted on the flesh, apparently savoring tongues that weighed in at 25 pounds.

“We were all astonished by the sight of these bones and felt certain there must have been giants in that land,” Díaz wrote. It is unclear what killed off the mammoths and other megafauna. Some speculate about a calamitous meteorite strike. But experts tend to believe it was a lethal combination of habitat loss due to climate change as the glaciers retreated and human depredation.

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