The June 2025 General Meeting will be held at 8:00 PM CDT on June 13th, 2025 via Zoom. Our speaker is John A. Moretti of the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin. His topic is "New discoveries in Inner Space Cavern reveal the animals of Ice Age Texas".
Since its discovery in 1963, Inner Space Caverns has been famous for its rich abundance of Ice Age fossils. Those fossils represent mammoths, extinct horses, saber-tooth cats, and other animals that went extinct over 11,000 years ago. John has been exploring the Ice Age archive preserved in Inner Space Cavern for lessons about how animal communities change over time and how changes in the past led to the animal community of today. His investigations have recovered new fossils of bats, giant jaguars, and tiny antelope-like pronghorn. Research and analysis of those fossils are providing new insights about the origins of the native fauna of Texas and revealing that Inner Space Caverns contains one of the oldest, longest, and most important troves of Ice Age fossils anywhere in Texas. Come learn more about this famous cave and the ancient history of the Texas Hill Country!
