Labourers in the Mexican city of Tultepec, while digging a sewage duct, exhumed fossilized remains of a mammoth that, experts believe, lived approximately 14,000 years ago and was killed by early humans for meat.
Fossil found in Mexico
The remains were found to be well preserved when they were dug out the drains in Tultepec. However, fossilized remains of mammoths were found from this region earlier too.
The skull measured about 3 feet across, while the two intact tusks spanned over 10 feet in length. According to experts, the North American mammoth, also known as Mammuthus Columbi, is estimated to have weighed close to 11 tonnes and stood 16 feet tall.
While scientists know the relative size of the North American mammoth, there is still a debate over whether or not it had hair like its cousin the wooly mammoth.
The specimen is believed to have been between 20 and 25 years of age when it died.
