Divers exploring a flooded cave system in Comal County, Texas, have recovered Ice Age fossils that may push back the known timeline of megafauna in Central Texas by tens of thousands of years. The ...

Remnants of a lion-sized armadillo dating back to the Ice Age have been discovered resting on the riverbed of a half-submerged cave 40 feet below the surface of Comal County. It’s a sight straight out ...

A team of researchers wading through an underground stream in Central Texas didn't expect to find bones everywhere, but that's exactly what they saw. Fossils from a giant tortoise, a lion-sized ...

A paleontologist from The University of Texas at Austin has discovered the fossilized remains of Ice Age animals that have never been found in Central Texas before—and he came across the bones while ...

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 ...

A paleontologist snorkeling through an underwater Texas cave stumbled onto something nobody expected: fossils of giant tortoises, saber-tooth cats and armadillo relatives that had never been ...

John Moretti and John Young rappelled through a two-and-a-half-foot sinkhole and thirty feet down the shaft of Bender’s Cave, landing in a cramped horizontal crawl space full of soil, dead leaves, and ...

"There were fossils everywhere, just everywhere, in a way that I haven't seen in any other cave," said John Moretti, a University of Texas at Austin paleontologist who led the research. "It was just ...

With a wet suit and goggles, paleontologist John Moretti searches for fossils in the stream that flows through Bender’s Cave. A paleontologist from The University of Texas at Austin has discovered the ...