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  • While divers can enter and exit the underwater cave known as Hoyo Negro today, there was no escape for animals who plunged to their deaths here 13,000 years ago when sea levels were lower and the cave was not yet filled with water
    Biology
    Ice Age bones discovered inside inescapable "black hole"
    Thirteen thousand years ago, animals roaming through subterranean passageways in what is now Mexico often plunged to their death in a pit descending 180 ft (55 m) into the Earth. Researchers have been exploring that pit, which is now underwater, and discovering a remarkable collection of fossils.