Paleontologists Find Lost Ice Age World in Flooded Texas Cave

May 13, 2026 - 17:45
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Paleontologists Find Lost Ice Age World in Flooded Texas Cave
An artist’s interpretation of mammals that lived during the Ice Age: fossils from similar species of an armadillo-like pampathere (bottom left) and giant ground sloth (background) were among those found in a Texas water cave. Image credit: Jaime Chirinos.

Fossils of a giant tortoise, a ground sloth, a lion-sized armadillo relative called pampathere, scimitar-toothed cats, horses, camels and mastodons found in Bender’s Cave on the Edwards Plateau of Texas may reveal a previously unknown warm period in the region roughly 100,000 years ago.

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