Skull of 10,000-Year-Old Mammoth Is Unearthed by Builders in Rural Mexico Sarah Griffiths - MailOnline
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The Mayor, Alejandra Ramirez, said that the discovery is very important because the remains are in a perfect state of conservation. (CEN/INAH)

The complete skull of a 10,000-year-old mammoth has been found on a building site in Mexico, together with part of its massive skeleton.

It was discovered in the neighborhood of El Ejido San Rafael in the city of Galeana – a rural areas of north east Mexico.

The Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) is an extinct species of mammoth that inhabited North America as far north as the northern United States and as far south as Costa Rica during the Pleistocene epoch.

It was one of the last in a line of mammoth species and one of the largest. Mammoths could group up to 13 foot (four meters) in height and weigh eight to 10 tons.

The prehistoric beast would have weighed between three and five tons when it stomped through the area thousands of years ago.

Columbian mammoths (Mammuthus columbi) were one of the latest, and largest species of mammoth, reaching up to 13 ft tall (4 meters) at the shoulders. There are no specific measurements for the specimen found.

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