The speleobuzos of Argentine origin Cristian Juun and Arnaldo Marucco have found remains of a giant lazy bear in the Dzombakal Cenote of the San Antonio Mulix police station, municipality of Umán, in the state of Yucatán, to the southeast of Mexico.
“The colleagues Fabián López and Ricardo Atocha had explored the entrance of the cave flooded in 2021 and two years later, we went to the place to investigate the new site and my colleague Aldo found thick and large bones,” he told Efe Selun, who has twelve years of experience in speleobuceum in the Yucatan peninsula.
About 22 meters deep, they took place measures and bone remains to send the information to the paleontologist Jerónimo Avilés Olguín, “who identified that the bones belong to extinct species.”
The Mexico-Argentino, who has lived in Mérida for 23 years, found in 2018 megalodon teeth in a Cenote de Homún, in a place that is located in the Yucatan Cenotes ring.
“The speleobuceo has left me great satisfactions, from showing a new world underwater, finding bone remains of extinct animals, to explore one of the three largest caves in Yucatan,” he added.
“I have pending the record of a feline, whose bones are under investigation, we will know what species it belongs to,” he said.
For his part, the Mexican paleontologist based in Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, Jerónimo Avilés, has said that the bone remains do belong to a kind of giant lazy of the genus Nothrotheriops, extinct more than 10,000 years ago.
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Experts find remains of giant lazy bear in Yucatán
“It is the first time that there are remains of that species in Yucatan, but not the horses, since they were previously found in other places, such as Loltún, where 179 remains of Equus Conversters were recorded,” said the spelebuzo with 20 years of experience as a paleontologist.
The expert has explained that to reach this diagnosis he analyzed a femur of the giant lazy that belongs to the nonhrotheriopic family and probably to the species Shastensis, known and recorded in multiple caves flooded with Quintana Roo and Belize.
Of the remains of horse bones, it has abounded, 14 elements that have similarities with the Equidae family, gender equus and probable conversid species based on its morphology, size and distribution during the Pleistocene have been found.
On the finding of his colleagues of Argentine origin, he stated that it is important, since “they are extinct species.”
Aviles Olguín confirms that the finding was communicated to María José Gómez Cobá of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and “is already protected by law.”
Other work of the paleontologist has been the description of two new species of lazy giants discovered in Cenotes of Puerto Morelos, “they did not know each other, I had the privilege of appointing them.”
Cristian Selun has commented that the Yucatan Peninsula is vast in cenotes and speleobuzos could find archaeological pieces or bone remains, but has asked, in case someone makes the finding, not touching anything.
“They do not touch anything not to deform the story and know if the evidence was so because it fell or perhaps the position was due to the fact that a stone covered it, the most important thing is to preserve the finding and not forget that the cenotes are sacred places for the Mayan ancestors,” he said.
With EFE information.
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