Lubbock Road Work Leads to Archeological Discoveries of 'Colossal Creatures'

Lubbock road work leads to archeological discoveries of 'colossal creatures'

Note: The above video shows the top headlines from the morning of May 15, 2025. LUBBOCK, Texas -- While conducting an environmental review for Loop 88 in Lubbock, TxDOT found what experts believe to be the tooth of a giant ground sloth. The Panhandle is home to several playas, or lakes that are remnants of water left over from the Ice Age where both humans and megafauna, large creatures that used to roam the earth, would use as a water source. T…

Smithsonian Unveils Maryland Ice Age Fossil Trove - The Southern Maryland Chronicle

Cumberland, Md., May 15, 2025 — A Smithsonian Institution publication released on May 1, 2025, unveils the extraordinary diversity of Ice Age animals preserved in a Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland, cave, marking it as the largest collection of Ice Age fossils in the eastern United States, north of Florida. The study, led by Dr. Ralph E. Eshelman, former director of the Calvert Marine Museum, and involving Calvert Marine Museum Curator of P…

Cave Bears And Peccaries Once Roamed Maryland: New Study Revisits Landmark Ice Age Site - The BayNet

Figure 1. Paleontologist James W. Gidley, posing at the opening of the Cumberland Bone Cave shortly after it was discovered in 1912. Note the timber bracing the loose rock above the opening to what remained of the cave. Source: 1913 photograph by Raymond William Armbruster, Smithsonian Institution Archives.SOLOMONS, Md. – A recent Smithsonian Institution publication details the remarkable diversity of Ice Age animals that were preserved in a cav…