After Yellowstone National Park officials found part of a human foot inside a floating shoe in a hot spring near the south, The area of the park you are researching.
The discovery was made at Abyss Pools on Tuesday, resulting in the temporary closure of the West Thumb Geyser Basin. It has since reopened, according to the Associated Press.
As of Thursday, park officials had no further information about the investigation.
Abyss Pool is located in West Thumb on Yellowstone Lake. The hot springs are 53 feet deep and water temperatures reach 140 degrees Fahrenheit (60 degrees Celsius), a park official told his AP.
At 140 degrees Fahrenheit, human skin is severely burned in about 3 seconds.
Yellowstone's hot springs and geysers have a history of deaths when visitors got too close and fell into the overheated water.
Since 1870, 22 people have died in the park after falling into pools and geysers. Most recently, in 2016, a man died while trying to soak in the park's geyser. The man fell into the water and boiled to death. His body dissolved in superheated water before being retrieved by park staff.
It is unknown if the foot found in the pool was the result of a visitor's accident or if it got there by other means.
Many signs were posted near geysers and hot springs in Yellowstone National Park warning them to stay on the trails to protect visitors and the ecosystem surrounding the geysers. .
A gift shop in the park sells a book titledDeath in Yellowstone, which collects the stories of individuals who died in the park. The title of the first chapter is "Yoshi".
