While snorkeling for fossils in Bender’s Cave, which is located on private land, University of Texas paleontologist John ...

Evolution rarely hits delete. Instead, it leaves behind living relics built for animals that no longer exist. Avocados are one of them.

The groundwater flowing through the subterranean cave systems of central Texas are vital for both farming and daily life.

Michael Christopher Brown Unusually for a major tourist attraction, the phrase “death trap” features prominently in the ...

Researchers found a long-lost ice age ecosystem in Bender's Cave, Texas ...

Two researchers snorkeling in a subterranean stream in Texas discovered fossils from the Late Pleistocene epoch, revealing ...

Shark Week? In this year 2026, that’s kind of played out. Sloth Month? Now there’s something we can (very slowly) get behind. This winter, the Children’s Natural History Museum in Fremont acquired a ...

Ancient, giant ground sloths roamed the Americas. Some reached the size of modern elephants and lived alongside early humans. Though extinct, these ancestors show just how drastically sloths have ...

A paleontologist discovered ancient fossils inside a submerged cave, a find that could shed new light on prehistoric ...

Ice Age fossils discovered in an underwater cave in Texas reveal new details about prehistoric animals and ancient ...

A German shorthaired pointer discovered an ancient bone in Bay Head. Matthew Gregg and his son took the bone to the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum in Mantua. The bone was preserved because it was likely ...