Society of Vertebrate Paleontology https://refractor.io/tag/society-of-vertebrate-paleontology/ Society of Vertebrate Paleontology en-AU Fri, 25 Aug 2017 18:39:27 GMT Ice Age bones discovered inside inescapable "black hole" https://refractor.io/biology/ice-age-bones-discovered-inside-inescapable-black-hole/ While divers can enter and exit the underwater cave known as Hoyo Negro today, there was no escape for animals who plunged to their deaths here 13,000 years ago when sea levels were lower and the cave was not yet filled with water

Around the end of the last Ice Age, about 13,000 years ago, animals could roam through subterranean passageways in what is now Mexico. But the creatures who reached the end of those passageways often plunged to their death in a pit descending 180 ft (55 m) into the Earth from which there was no escape. Researchers have been exploring that pit, which is now underwater, and discovering a remarkable collection of fossils. Their findings will be presented at this year's annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Calgary, Canada on August 26.

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]]> Fri, 25 Aug 2017 18:39:27 GMT https://refractor.io/biology/ice-age-bones-discovered-inside-inescapable-black-hole/ Mike Franco