TxDOT Crew Discovers Ice Age Bones While Digging in Lubbock Texas

Only in Texas can you be building a road and end up digging up a giant ground sloth.

Yep, you read that right. While prepping for a new stretch of Loop 88 in Lubbock, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) stumbled upon something way bigger than a pothole, prehistoric megafauna bones.

We’re talking Ice Age beasts here. Giant ground sloths. Maybe even a mammoth or mastodon. The discovery happened during TxDOT’s environmental review, and it’s got archaeologists buzzing…

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