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Based on source story: 'It blew my mind': Long-lost ice-age ecosystem, including fossils of lion-size armadillo and giant ground sloth, discovered in Texas 'water cave' from Live Science
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Two snorkeling in a subterranean stream in Texas discovered fossils from the Late Pleistocene epoch, revealing new details about what in this ancient ecosystem. Feed your curiosity with an exclusive mystery every week, solved with and delivered direct to your inbox before it's seen anywhere else.
In a published March 19 in the journal Quaternary , say the cave may preserve the remains of animals that during a relatively warm period of the last ice age. If the findings are validated, the site would offer a rare look at an animal community that was missing from central Texas' fossil record.
It was Moretti and Young who found the ice-age fossils simply lying in the mud. The discovery of these two fossilized animals puzzled Moretti and Young because these ice-age giants were not known to have in this area.
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