They Had Some Idea
In an effort to see whether this was a unique case, the National Institute of Anthropology and History experts decided to join in on the fun. Thanks to the Tultepec discovery, they had an idea of what to look for. They were not sure if the ground was going to present them with more relics from those days, however.
It Took Them Six Months
It is a good thing that they found the answer to this question soon enough. Six months into the excavation, they found over fifty mammoth skeletons on the site! Pedro Sanchez Nava of the National Institute of Anthropology and History told Associated Press, “There are too many, there are hundreds.”