🇺🇸👷Prehistoric fossils in US

The crews working on expanding Los Angeles' subway line keep running into a roadblock: 10,000-year-old fossils.

Dave Sotero, the spokesman for the city's Metropolitan Transit Authority's (MTA), summed it up best: "The prehistoric past is leading the subway future."😃

The MTA's Purple Line extension project is meant, according to its website, to be a "high-capacity, high-speed, dependable alternative" for commuters to and from places like Beverly Hills.

In November, crews found a 3⃣-foot section of tusk from an adult mammoth; teeth of a mastodon; and a nearly intact skull of a young mammoth.

Later, in mid-April, a fossilized forearm from an extinct camel was unearthed.

Then came a 36-inch long femur or thigh bone from either a mastodon or mammoth. In May, they found a leg bone from a bison and a hip joint from a sloth😲

The last ice age over 10,000 years ago resulted in the extinction of many large mammals across North America, including each of the species mentioned.

UCJ, UNILORIN.