Fossils from giant tortoises, armadillos and other Ice Age-era species challenge previous assumptions about the region's ...

A palaeontologist stumbled on more than he expected while exploring a water cave in Texas in 2023. Although he was looking for fossils in a subterranean stream, he didn't anticipate discovering a ...

A discovery in a Central Texas cave is challenging long-held assumptions about which species lived in the region during the Ice Age. Fossils from large, lion-sized animals suggest a more complex ...

A hidden source of Ice Age history has turned up at a water-filled cave in Texas, where a paleontologist discovered dozens of ancient fossils. Water caves throughout the state, home to active ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist’s interpretation of mammals that lived during the last Ice Age. Fossils from similar species of an armadillo-like ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With a wetsuit and goggles, paleontologist John Moretti searches for fossils in the stream that flows through Bender's Cave in ...

Two University of Texas at Austin scientists snorkeling through an underwater cave in Comal County stumbled onto something unexpected — the fossilized remains of Ice Age animals that had been hidden ...

Roughly 100,000 years ago, during a relatively balmy period, giant ground sloths, saber-tooth cats, camels, mastodons, giant tortoises and lion-sized armadillo ancestors called a pampathere roamed ...

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Unprecedented remnants from the Ice Age have been recovered from a water cave in Comal County. While snorkeling for fossils in Bender’s Cave, which is located on private land, University of Texas ...