With a wetsuit and goggles, paleontologist John Moretti searches for fossils in the stream that flows through Bender's Cave ...

A discovery deep underground in Comal County is challenging what scientists thought they knew about the region’s ancient past ...

Hundreds of Chinese fossils from the dawn of animal evolution may change how scientists think of this critical period of ...

The groundwater flowing through the subterranean cave systems of central Texas are vital for both farming and daily life.

Around 540 million years ago, the ocean erupted with complex life: Creatures rapidly transformed from simple, soft-bodied, ...

The assemblage suggests that the ancestors of some of today's animal groups may have arisen before the famed Cambrian ...

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

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

They found remains of animals that have never been uncovered in Central Texas. The fossils hint that the region was warm, ...

Some of the most ancient fossils collected to date were traced back to the Ediacaran period. This is the time interval ranging from around 635 to 541 million years ago, shortly before the time when ...

Fossils in China show that complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, changing our understanding of how life ...