The groundwater flowing through the subterranean cave systems of central Texas are vital for both farming and daily life. They’re also underground, ancient archives of the past. In Comal County just ...

Paleontologists have used an Ice Age fossil found 120 years ago in an underground cave to reveal that extinct giant echidnas ...

More than a hundred years after it was found in Foul Air Cave in Victoria, the fossil is granting us new insights into deep ...

Deep beneath the limestone of Central Texas, an underground stream has yielded a submerged menagerie. Paleontologists ...

Observations of giant salamanders’ behavior, size and habitat are rare opportunities to shape conservation strategies.

Giant salamanders belong to a class of amphibians with traits that have captured serious scientific attention. Like frogs, ...

Modern giants like pythons and anacondas are among the largest snakes alive today, but they are nothing compared to some of the prehistoric species that once ruled ancient ecosystems. Millions of ...

Researchers found a long-lost ice age ecosystem in Bender's Cave, Texas ...

A park ranger photographed a giant salamander after coming across the rare creature, deemed a 'living fossil,' in a remote ...

A recent study by Dr. John Moretti of the University of Texas and local caver John Young uncovered the remains of Ice Age ...

Scientists have identified a prehistoric python stretching more than 13 feet long from a single fossilized vertebra found near Tainan, Taiwan — part of a vanished ecosystem that also included 23-foot ...