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Paleontologists Find Lost Ice Age World in Flooded Texas Cave


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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