Loper Endowed Professor of Geological Sciences Hazel Barton presented some of the details and findings from her exploration ...

Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headlamp and enters a cave buried in Okinawa's jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge. These are from the skulls ...

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Among them, the pristine Lechuguilla Cave and the famed Carlsbad Cavern, home to one of North America's largest underground chambers. But there's more to this subterranean world than gigantic ...

Why it's awesome: This deadly, yellow centipede has evolved to live in the Movile Cave — a pitch black, sulfurous underground system untouched by sunlight for more than 5 million years.

As we navigate the maze-like passages, we stumble upon a hidden cave deep within the mine, leading us into an incredible underground world. With ropes guiding the way, we descend into crystal ...

Caves in Reigate are a tourist attraction ... "Sometimes you can see where the entrances are on old maps, but by and large it's just local memory that you have to rely on – or maybe a hole ...

This study represents a polyphasic analysis of microbial communities from two caves in the Hindu Kush mountain range situated in the North-West region of Pakistan. The local names of those caves are ...