Lion-sized armadillo, ancient turtles: Ice Age creatures found in Central Texas

Texas and the Edwards Plateau with suitable Late Pleistocene sites indicated. (CREDIT: Quaternary Research)

The floor of Bender’s Cave looked like a graveyard. Fossils strewn in either direction of the flooded river, packed so tightly that archaeologist John Moretti could not move them without disturbing them. He was wearing a snorkel mask. “There were fossils everywhere, just everywhere, like I’ve never seen in any other cave,” said Moretti, who … Read more