When construction workers began working on the site to clear it up in preparation for building new houses in Hot Springs, South Dakota, in 1974, they made an astonishing discovery under the soil. While George Hanson, the bulldozer driver who was removing the dirt from the site, began to see enormous bones in his excavations, Smithsonian Magazine confirms the fact that these were identified as mammoth fossils and that the discovery was investigated by the paleontologist Larry Agenbroad.
The problem that seemed to occur at first turned into what is now known as one of the greatest Ice Age fossil findings in North America. In fact, it was not a single mammoth that had been uncovered during this excavation project but rather a number of these huge mammals that existed alongside other extinct species.
