Workers Find Remains Of 14,000-Year-Old Beast Six Feet Beneath A Busy Road In Mexico. Photos

Workers digging up a busy street in the Mexican city of ‪‎Tultepec‬ have delighted paleontologists with a mammoth find - literally!


The skeleton of the long-extinct behemoth - which experts believe grew to 16 feet tall and weighed as much as 10 tonnes -was found while workers were carrying out drainage work in the the city's suburb of San Antonio Xahuento.

Experts say the beast died on that spot 12,000-14,000 years ago, and remained there while civilization sprouted up just six-and-a-half feet above it.