A paleontologist snorkeling through the dark underwater passages of a Texas cave made a startling discovery: the streambed ...

A paleontologist from The University of Texas at Austin has discovered the fossilized remains of Ice Age animals that have ...

Growing up, I was obsessed with the 2002 movie Ice Age. I watched it day in and day out, captivated by the adventures of ...

The fossils were found in a cave with an underwater stream, where they were simply picked up from the streambed.

Learn about the assemblage of fossils discovered at a water cave in central Texas, shedding light on Ice Age megafauna that lived in the state.

The floor of Bender’s Cave looked like a graveyard. Fossils spread across the submerged stream bed in every direction, packed tightly enough that paleontologist John Moretti could barely move without ...

Hippos, today restricted to sub-Saharan Africa, survived in central Europe far longer than previously assumed. Analyses of bone finds demonstrate that hippos inhabited the Upper Rhine Graben sometime ...

John Moretti, a paleontologist at the University of Texas at Austin, discovered the fossilized remains of Ice Age animals ...

Long before highways and high-rises, Earth was home to some seriously massive, strange, and downright wild animals. These creatures ruled the Ice Age and thrived in frozen landscapes. But as the ...

A study published in Nature on March 25, 2026, has identified the oldest genetic evidence for domestic dogs in Europe and what is now Turkiye, pushing back the confirmed timeline for dog domestication ...

Scientists have confirmed using full genome analysis that dogs were already living as human companions over 14,000 years ago.