Bodies pulled from parched Lake Mead stir wise-guy ghosts of Las Vegas
The [discoveries of human remains on the dry bed bed of Lake Mead] come amid the Southwest’s driest two decades in more than a thousand years, as drought-starved bodies of water yield one surprise after another. At Elephant Butte Reservoir in New Mexico, a bachelor party stumbled across a fossilized mastodon skull that is millions of years old. In Utah last year, the receding waters of Lake Powell revealed a car that had plunged 600 feet off a cliff, killing the driver. And as Lake Powell dries up, archaeologists are getting a chance to study newly emerged Indigenous dwellings.