Cave Divers Find One Of The Oldest Human Skeletons In North America

Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 19:32 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Deep in the water of a Yucatán Peninsula cave, one of the oldest human skeletons found in North America has been discovered.  "Naia" is the the researchers' name for the teenage girl who went underground, presumably to seek water, and fell to her death in a large pit named Hoyo Negro - "black hole" in Spanish. read more

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