Deep inside a remote Mexican cave, a pair of explorers thought they had stumbled on modern litter, the kind of plastic and debris that too often mars even the most isolated landscapes. Instead, they ...

Deep in a cave near the town of Toirano in northern Italy, archaeologists have uncovered ancient human hand and footprints that are 14,000 years old. Publishing their findings in the journal eLife, ...

After more than six months of preparation and 14 hours underground, a group of cavers has uncovered Australia's deepest known cave, at a depth of 401 metres. The new cave, dubbed "Delta Variant", is ...

The 2026 “Caving in the Abode of the Clouds” expedition has concluded with the mapping of 11,781 meters of new cave passages across Meghalaya and Assam. This latest exploration brings the total length ...

Cave exploration has fascinated Dave Foster almost his entire life. As a Virginia youth, he would find himself engrossed in exploration stories like the sci-fi expedition classic “Journey to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1838, a teenage slave from Kentucky was given a rare opportunity. Rather than breaking his back in the fields with his peers, ...

A new study has demonstrated that we now have the tools to study the incredibly complex ecosystems of caves in near real-time with ...