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‘It blew my mind’: Long-glacial ecosystem, including fossils of lion-sized armadillos and giant ground sloths, discovered in Texas ‘water cave’

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A person wearing a black suit and hard hat with a flashlight on it bends over a circular wall of a small cave.

While exploring a cave in central Texas, they unearthed a lost glacial ecosystem, including the remains of a giant tortoise and a lion-sized armadillo, among fossilized groundwater. In a study published on March 19 in the journal Quaternary Researchthe researchers say that the cave may contain the remains of animals that lived in a relatively … Read more

In a cave near Arar, in the north of Saudi Arabia, they found the complete corpses of cheetahs burned naturally, and scientists are still amazed at how “impossible” it is to preserve a mammal in this way.

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Researchers descending into a desert cave near Arar in northern Saudi Arabia, where naturally cremated cheetah carcasses were found.

A scientific team exploring a cave in the far north of Saudi Arabia is expected to find more bones. Instead, they came face to face with the dead but still body of a cheetah, lying on the floor of the cave. This discovery was so unusual that one foreign expert explained that it was something … Read more