On this day in 1940, 17,000-year-old artwork was discovered in France.

Human-generated lint poses a significant problem within Mammoth Cave's delicate ecosystem. This debris introduces nutrients ...

The world is full of amazing places. Though most people travel to see such sites above the earth’s surface, many are actually beneath it. Caves contain their own ecosystems that would not be ...

It might appear featureless, but one of the world’s largest limestone regions hides a remarkable underground world.

Cave explorers have traversed what’s now the deepest known cave in Australia. On Saturday a group of explorers discovered a 401-metre-deep cave, which they named Delta Variant, in Tasmania’s ...

A team of researchers from the University of Adelaide, in collaboration with cavers, has uncovered a large number of eyeless, cave-adapted invertebrates—including spiders, cockroaches, centipedes, and ...

This one’s a grower. Mammoth Cave National Park in south-central Kentucky, home to the world’s longest cave system, has extended its fame. The National Park Service announced that explorers have ...

The oldest known cave art in the world dates back tens of thousands of years, sharing a glimpse of a prehistoric world as our ancestors saw it. Cave paintings can tell us a lot about the people who ...

Archaeologists have identified Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa’s Kalahari Desert as the world’s oldest home, thanks to new evidence confirming the theory that early humans were already occupying the ...

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