A Step Closer To The Truth
The Santa Lucia airport find has helped us get a step closer to the answers we want. It is not every day that you find so many mammoth skeletons in a single place. Another paleontologist called Ashley Leger expounded on this topic when she spoke to the Associated Press. “A very specific set of conditions that allow for a collection of remains in an area – but also be preserved as fossils – must be met. There needs to be a means for them to be buried rapidly and experience low oxygen levels,” she said.
It Is Not Exactly New
Mammoth graveyards might be rare, but we have been unearthing their bones for a long time by now. As a matter of fact, the Aztecs also found a lot of their skeletons. They had no way to know what they were. Nava said that it stumped them so much that they wondered if giants once roamed the planet.