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Mammoth discovered in Mexico

Picture a 30-year-old male, wandering the wilderness alone, far from his friends, seeking love. Let's call him Manny.

Picture him trudging from lake to lake in the Mexican mountains, having climbed nearly half a mile from his pals into the hills to the picturesque watering holes, in search of a mate.

Now flash forward some 12,000 years to modern day Mexico City, where residents of the suburb of Milpa Alto recently stumbled across the most complete mammoth skeleton ever found in the country, the National Institute of Anthropology and History announced Monday....


 

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