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Bourbon Street has seen snakes, turtles and opossums. Where did they all go?

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Bourbon Street has seen snakes, turtles and opossums. Where did they all go?

Snake handlers chat on Bourbon Street Sunday, March 15, 2020. STAFF PHOTO BY SCOTT THRELKELD Among the hordes of revelers, hustlers and eccentrics who flock to Bourbon Street every evening, there is something enduring, controversial and impersonal. It’s been two years since state wildlife agents began efforts to remove pythons, boas and other animals that … Read more

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

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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