In a major discovery, archaeologists in Mexico have excavated a 500-year-old Aztec offering filled with over 160 starfish and the skeleton of a jaguar with a spear in its claw:
An Aztec offering discovered at the Templo Mayor in Mexico City. Courtesy of the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology.
, came at the Templo Mayor, the primary temple of the Mexica people in the capital of Tenochtitlán in what is now Mexico City. Erected in the 1300s, the 90-foot-tall structure was the site of momentous Aztec rituals and ceremonies. Although starfish have been uncovered at the site before, this offering is the largest collection found to date. One example, among the earliest placed in the offering, was even found completely intact—the result, experts believe, of being pushed, by the weight above it, below a level of fiber. The creatures belong to a species called, often called chocolate-chip starfish because of their sandy coloring and raised black spots.
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