Deep beneath Kentucky, scientists have uncovered the remains of two unknown prehistoric sharks that swam through ancient seas ...

A subscriber pointed the explorers toward one of the deepest caves he had ever visited, but even finding the entrance turned ...

Best known for its Paleolithic art, Valencia’s Cova de les Dones also contains a Roman sanctuary where researchers say women ...

Why it's incredible: The cave is so deep, the world's tallest building could fit inside it. The Hranice Abyss — or "Hranická propast," in Czech — is the deepest known freshwater cave in the world.

As archaeologists study the work of ancient artists, they notice that the images aren’t simply static; some are painted into ...

Archaeologists excavating a paleolithic cave site in Galilee, Israel, have found evidence that a deep-cave compound at the site may have been used for ritualistic gatherings, according to a new paper ...

Deep beneath a massive mountain range lies a sprawling cave system that spirals beneath the hills, extending more than 2000 ...

(via MinuteEarth) Krubera Cave, one of our planet’s deepest known caves, extends 2200 meters into the earth – that’s a depth of nearly six Empire State Buildings. Or at least, that's as far down as ...

At the edge of a deep chasm in the French Alps on July 16, 1962, a young researcher took off his watch, checked his provisions and grabbed hold of a rope ladder. He was enveloped by darkness. For the ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi more than 65,000 years ago? This is the question posed by ...

The cave's living space was near the entrance, but in the deepest, darkest part of the cave, eight stories below, the new paper describes a large cavern with evidence that it was used as a gathering ...