Tag: Mexico
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You Wouldn’t Want to Butt Heads With This Small Dinosaur
The New York Times’ Trilobites column has a story about the discovery of a new dinosaur in Mexico. The animal, Xenovenator espinosai, was discovered in 2000 in the Cerro del Pueblo formation in northeastern Mexico by Martha Aguillón-Martinez. It lived about about 73 million years ago when the area was a marshy coastline. The animal’s…
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PhD student finds lost city in Mexico jungle by accident
The BBC has a story about the accidental discovery of a huge Maya city. Luke Auld-Thomas, a PhD student at Tulane university in the US, came across a laser survey by a Mexican organisation for environmental monitoring and noticed something interesting… a lost city deep in the jungle of the Mexican state of Campeche. The…
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ESCONI October 2024 General Meeting – October 11th, 2024 – “Hoyo Negro: A Spectacular Natural Trap on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula”
The ESCONI October 2024 General Meeting will be held on October 11th, 2024 at 8:00 via Zoom. The topic of the meeting is “Hoyo Negro: A Spectacular Natural Trap on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula”. It will be presented by Jim Chatters, who has studied human history here in the Americas for many years. Here is an…
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Divers in Mexico’s Underwater Caves Get a Glimpse of Rarely Seen Artifacts, Fossils and Human Remains
Smithsonian Magazine has an article about the underwater caves of Mexico. They call them cenotes and these particular caves are located in the Yucatán Peninsula. They date to a few million years ago and preserved remnants of the Mayan culture and sometime fossils of extinct animals. The underwater caves of the Yucatán Peninsula are a…
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She thrifted this vase for $4. It turned out to be an ancient Mayan artifact
Anna Lee Dozier purchased this vase at a thrift store about 10 minutes from her Washington, D.C., home. It turned out to be an authentic Mayan artifact that dates to between 200 AD to 800 AD. Anna Lee Dozier NPR WBEZ in Chicago has the story of a great find. A 1,200 year old Mayan…
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Stone by Ancient Stone, Mexico Recovers Its Lost Treasure
The New York Times has a story about how Mexico is working to restore and preserve its cultural heritage. American officials are helping to track down and restore stolen antiquities from Mexico and restore the items to their rightful owners. Many of the artifacts, stolen years ago, sell to collectors for upwards of a million…
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Construction Workers Uncover Massive 800-Year-Old Aztec Dwelling in Mexico City
Smithsonian Magazine has a story about an accidental archaeological find in Mexico City. Construction workers unearthed the remains of a large house while renovating an electrical substation. The structure, which measures about 4300 square feet, dates to the late Postclassic period maybe 800 years ago. It is fairly common to uncover Aztec ruins in Mexico…
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Smithsonian: Discovery of a 95-Million-Year-Old ‘Eagle Shark’ Fossil Makes Waves
Smithsonian Magazine has a story about an interesting new shark fossil. The eagle shark, Aquilolomna milarcae, lived about 95 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period in what is now northeastern Mexico. It was found in 2012 by a quarry worker in the Vallecillo limestone quarry. The animal was about 5.4 feet long and 6…
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Phys.org: New evidence suggests it was matter ejected from the Chicxulub crater that led to impact winter
Phys.org has a story on new research about the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs. Since it’s discovery 40 years ago by Walter and Luis Alvarez, this mass extinction, which occurred approximately 66 million years ago, has been a source for much research. The cause is generally thought to be the large meteor that struck the…
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Largest Crystals in the World
Description of exploration of the Crystal Cave of Giants. The explorer, George Kourounis, has other photo galleries as well. From the site: … The crystals themselves are made of selenite which is crystallized gypsum, the same material used in drywall construction. Except these crystals formed over a span of about half a million years in…
