The gomphothere remains weren't all Holliday and his colleagues unearthed at the site, which they dubbed El Fin del Mundo – Spanish for The End of the World – because of its remote location.

The gomphothere remains weren't all Holliday and his colleagues unearthed at the site, which they dubbed El Fin del Mundo -- Spanish for The End of the World -- because of its remote location.

Illustrations of the different gomphothere genera, including Rhynchotherium (bottom left), whose remains were found in Florida. (Image credit: Pedro Toledo, CC BY) Researchers discovered the trove ...

The gomphothere remains weren't all Holliday and his colleagues unearthed at the site, which they dubbed El Fin del Mundo – Spanish for The End of the World – because of its remote location.

History was not kind to either the gomphothere or the Clovis culture. The proto-elephants eventually died off and were replaced by the modern, two-tusked model.

A gomphothere jawbone as it was found in place, upside down, at the El Fin del Mundo site in Mexico. Vance Holliday / University of Arizona.

An illustration of a gomphothere that would have looked similar to a fossilized skeleton discovered by University of Florida researchers at a site near Gainesville. Florida Museum image by Merald ...

Scientists recently uncovered several Gomphothere remains dating back 12,000 years near Lake Tagua Tagua, a glacial finger lake, in southern Chile. Sign up here.

A trove of 5- to 10-million-year-old fossils of prehistoric species was discovered in the Mokelumne River watershed in Calaveras County, the East Bay Municipal Utility District announced on Tuesday.

Finding gomphothere prey, Haynes says, cements the Clovis people’s reputation as opportunistic hunters of whatever large mammals they encountered. Questions or comments on this article?

An illustration of a gomphothere that would have looked similar to a fossilized skeleton discovered by University of Florida researchers at a site near Gainesville. Florida Museum image by Merald ...

Scientists recently uncovered several Gomphothere remains dating back 12,000 years near Lake Tagua Tagua, a glacial finger lake, in southern Chile.