At the location north of Mexico City, 200 bones have been found, and many more are still waiting to be found.

The discovery of the bones has raised hopes that it will shed new light on how and why large animals went extinct thousands of years ago. The ‘traps’ are pits around six feet (1.70 meters) profound and 25 yards (meters) in measurement, and it’s idea people pursued the huge creatures into the snares. Following routine excavations to clear land for the Felipe ngeles International Airport construction site, the pits were discovered.

At the hour of revelation, something like 14 Colombian mammoths bones were found around 12 miles from where the air terminal is being assembled, revealed Business Insider. This kind of mammoth showed up in North America a long time back and frequently satisfied 70, or even 80 years of age.

The National Institute of Anthropology and History’s Pedro Sánchez Nava provided an explanation for how the mammoths might have ended up in the pits. He said, ‘It’s potential they might have pursued them into the mud.

They [ancient humans] had an extremely organized and coordinated division of work [for getting mammoth meat].’Sánchez Nava added that it was thought our progenitors used to have mammoth meat on their menus irregularly, however from the disclosure of such countless skeletons, mammoths might have been important for their everyday eating routine.

With the creatures remaining at an incredible 14 feet tall, it’s insane to think people had a potential for success close to them. Dad

Customarily, mammoths are known for their bristly bodies, yet it’s idea the Colombian mammoths didn’t really have that much as an approach to adjusting to North America’s hotter environment. Many paleontologists believe that prehistoric human hunters played a significant role in their extinction; something about which they hope to learn more by studying the bones at the site of the Mexican airport.