This fossil looks like a lumpy, rounded rock with a couple of exposed teeth that are a little worse for wear, having been submerged and tumbled along the floor of the Gulf of Mexico for thousands of ...

When a Mississippi Delta couple went to spend time on the Mississippi River recently, they expected to find fossils from long-extinct animals. After all, they find them all the time. However, what ...

A “strange” rock picked up over 60 years ago on a Texas beach gave researchers a glimpse into the animals that roamed the region tens of thousands of years ago. “It’s ugly on the outside, and the ...

A prehistoric saber-toothed cat once roamed what is now the Gulf Coast of Texas, a "treasure" of a fossil has revealed. Researchers determined that the fossil belongs to an individual from the extinct ...

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A ‘strange’ rock picked up off of a Texas coast almost 60 years ago turned out to be a fossil of an ‘extinct saber-toothed cat,’ researchers said. Photo by Christina Lee via Unsplash A “strange” rock ...

A skull from the saber-toothed cat Homotherium that is part of the Jackson School of Geosciences’ Vertebrate Paleontology Collections. Credit: University of Texas at Austin Important scientific finds ...

A nondescript mass of bone and teeth helped scientists at The University of Texas at Austin discover the geographic footprint of a large cat that roamed the Earth tens of thousands of years ago. The ...