Humans only discovered Arne Ovamgrotta in 1991, but it was a haven for at least 46 species over 75,000 years ago. By Andrew Paul Published Aug 4, 2025 4:09 PM EDT Add Popular Science (opens in a new ...

LOVELL — Falling 100 feet down into a dark cave is (almost) never a good thing. It is easy to imagine: a mountain lion sprinting after an antelope at 45 mph, both animals cresting a low rise. The ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that Ice Age humans lived in Serbia’s interior valleys during the coldest periods of the Late Pleistocene, challenging long-held assumptions about glacial ...

A paleontologist from The University of Texas at Austin has discovered the fossilized remains of Ice Age animals that have never been found in Central Texas before—and he came across the bones while ...

Deep beneath the tropical forests of the Yucatán Peninsula lies a vast subterranean domain few people can explore. Accessible by sinkholes known as “cenotes” and potentially stretching across ...

John Moretti and John Young rappelled through a two-and-a-half-foot sinkhole and thirty feet down the shaft of Bender’s Cave, landing in a cramped horizontal crawl space full of soil, dead leaves, and ...

Sealed away for 20,000 years, Chauvet Cave in France revealed 36,000-year-old paintings that transformed our understanding of early human creativity. The art’s sophistication shattered the idea that ...