This cave on a hillside near Tarbox Pond may have been a winter shelter for the Narragansetts. Find out why it's also known as "Witch's Cave." ...

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.

Bat Colony. Image by Edibobb, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Bracken Cave, located just outside San Antonio, Texas ...

FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — Repatriation, history, reconciliation and the future of the Tse’K’wa cave Heritage Site was discussed for an episode of the Before the Peace podcast. The cave in ...

Bison, pronghorn, prairie dogs, and the third longest cave in the United States. You’ll find all this and more when you visit Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota, where there is as much to see and ...

A 45,500-year-old warty pig drawing is the oldest known cave painting of an animal on record. The piggies were painted in Indonesian caves. Tom Hanks ‘storms out’ of SNL 50th anniversary ...

The discovery of the Red Lady of El Mirón—a prehistoric woman buried 19,000 years ago in a Spanish cave—has revolutionized our understanding ... have provided genetic insights into the people, animals ...

Lloyd et al. used an evolutionary comparative approach to study DNA damage repair associated with low sleep duration in Astyanax mexicanus, highlighting how the cavefish population has evolved a ...

Numerous diverse animals use scent to communicate with individuals ... friends suggesting they knew who had been peeing into the wind by tasting their urine. In addition to the significance ...

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Months after discovering a mysterious cave on my property, I finally worked up the courage to explore it. Things got intense—tight spaces, eerie echoes, and a real test of nerves. Did I make it out?