'Bones all over': Paleontologist finds 100,000-year-old fossils while snorkeling in cave
While snorkeling for fossils, University of Texas paleontologist John Moretti discovered fragments of a giant tortoise and an armadillo relative called a “pampathere,” which was about the size of a lion, along with dozens of other fossils.
“There were fossils everywhere, just everywhere, in a way that I haven’t seen in any other cave,” said Moretti. “It was just bones all over the floor.”
Moretti suggests that the water-cave fossils might be from the last interglacial, a warm period around 100,000 years ago during the last Ice Age.
Other major finds include a claw from a giant ground sloth and bones from saber-tooth cats, camels and mastodons.
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