By Yuan Ren For Mailonline
Published: 19:07 BST, 1 May 2019 | Updated: 19:10 BST, 1 May 2019
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Fossils of long-extinct animals from the last Ice Age have been found in an underwater cave in Mexico.
The finds confirm short-faced bears and wolf-like coyotes, previously thought to only have lived in South America, also roamed Central America during the Ice Age.
Archaeologists say the mammals, whose ancestors originated in North America, likely migrated back north to central Mexico through Panama.
The near complete skeleton of a 12,000-year-old man was also found in the cave, suggesting the area was populated at the same time by both humans and wildlife.
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Fossils of long-extinct animals from the last Ice Age have been found in a Yucatan underwater cave in Mexico. The picture shows a diver holding up the jaw of the extinct short-face bear (Arctotherium wingei) found in the cave
The latest discoveries in Quintana Roo, Meixco, were made in an underwater cave known as Hoyo Negro.
The cave dates back to the Late Pleistocene era around 0.126 million years ago to 0.012 million years ago.
A range of mammals were excavated on the surface of the
