20+ hour, 24+ min ago  (730+ words) The cave is unremarkable from above and is located on private property in Comal County, northeast of San Antonio. There was a field, a few limestone outcroppings, and the kind of landscape you would pass without slowing down. However, beneath…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (300+ words) There were fossils everywhere, just everywhere, in a way that I haven't seen in any other cave," said John Moretti, who recently finished his doctoral studies at the University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences. Moretti's straightforward description…...

4+ week, 18+ hour ago  (545+ words) It doesn't appear that the eastern Arizona desert has any secrets. Petrified logs strewn about, flat patches of sun-burned ground, and sporadic gusts of dust. Beneath that silence, however, scientists have been discreetly extracting pieces of a world that initially…...