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Archaeologists uncover historical megafauna bones throughout highway development on this state

Editorial Board Published May 25, 2025
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A current excavation in Texas yielded some “colossal creatures,” in response to native officers – and archaeologists are hopeful extra might be uncovered quickly.

The Texas Division of Transportation (TxDOT) introduced the invention in a current press launch. In an announcement, officers stated the excavation passed off in Lubbock throughout the environmental evaluate for Loop 88, a proposed state freeway.

In the course of the archaeological survey, diggers uncovered historical bones courting again to prehistoric instances. The stays belonged to megafauna, that are massive mammals.

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Chris Ringstaff, a challenge planner with TxDOT’s environmental affairs division, stated that megafauna bones “[are] not unusual in the region.”

Ringstaff additionally famous that not less than one big floor sloth was recognized, because of its distinctive tooth.

Archaeologists in Texas lately found prehistoric megafauna bones, together with an enormous floor sloth, throughout a freeway challenge. (Texas Division of Transportation (TxDOT))

“Whether all the bones are giant ground sloth or there are different animals such as mammoth or mastodon, we’re not sure,” he stated.

“Paleontologists will give us positive identification.”

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“We’re here to get the road built, but who doesn’t love digging up big ol’ animals?” Ringstaff added.

TxDOT famous that the Lone Star State is residence to many dried-out lakes known as playas, which date again to the Ice Age.

Archaeologists hope to search out proof of extra Ice Age megafauna on the Lubbock excavation website. (Texas Division of Transportation (TxDOT))

“In prehistoric times, animals and humans used playas as water sources and these sites can sometimes contain evidence of human activity,” the press launch famous.

Archaeologists are nonetheless looking for small artifacts. They’re additionally utilizing courting methods to find out the age of the stays. 

If any proof of human settlement is discovered, the challenge might be quickly halted.

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“Should the site reveal human activity with megafauna from the Ice Age, it would be [the] first of its kind for a TxDOT project,” the assertion stated.

The skeleton of an enormous floor sloth, seen right here. Excavators discovered stays of an enormous floor sloth on the Lubbock website. (Getty Photographs)

A number of prehistoric bones are discovered within the U.S. yearly. 

Final summer time, archaeologists in Iowa unearthed a 13,000-year-old mastodon cranium.

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Later in 2024, a New York home-owner discovered an entire mastodon jaw in his Scotchtown yard.

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