Fossils
40,000 years ago, the Centro American territory was home and a pathway to giant animals. In the las decade, the remains of prehistoric animals have been found in different places. The mammoth and two other kinds of paquiderms are prehistoric animales related to the elephants. The most recent remains found were of the dwarf mammoth in Santa Rosa. A crew of municipal workers of San Rafael Las Flores were digging new drains when they found the bones. The crew didn’t realize that those were the remains of fossils and some of the bones were loss. It is considerend that these bones are at least 35 to 40,000 years old. The dwarf mammoth was a prehistoric animal that inhabited the north of the american continent and used the Central American Isthmus to reach South America. There have been fossils found in different parts of Guatemala like Alta Verapaz, Zacapa, Peten, Chiquimula, Jutiapa, Guatemala and Huehuetenango but this is the first time that fossils have been found in the South.
