People Are Looting Mammoth Fossils And Trading Them For Beer In Mexico
archeologist in Mexico are urging citizenry who findmegafauna fossilsnot to portion out their discoveries online after a collection of mammoth remains was looted before researchers had a fortune to study them . According to a recent report , ancient fossils are often damaged or destroyed by careless plunderers , some of whom are so blasé about the invaluable token that they trade them for beer . The study inLa Jornada Veracruzexplains that a cache of two tooth belong to an nonextant congenator ofmammothsand elephants was found by residents of Juan Felipe , in the Mexican country of Veracruz ....