Thousands of years ago in a cave on Hispaniola, an unusual chain of events left behind a rare scientific treasure: bees nesting inside fossilized bones. After giant barn owls repeatedly brought prey ...

Deep inside a Romanian ice cave, locked away in a 5,000-year-old layer of ice, scientists have uncovered a bacterium with a startling secret: it’s resistant to many modern antibiotics. Despite ...

An international team of cave explorers has shown that cave walls and the prehistoric rock art that adorns them can preserve human DNA for thousands of years.

VIENTIANE, Laos — Rescuers in Laos are racing against time to find two men trapped in a flooded cave network for almost two weeks, with efforts turning to a search of dense jungle to find another way ...

Vientiane, Laos (CNN) — Rescuers in central Laos are racing to find two men feared to be trapped in a flooded cave network for almost two weeks, as storms batter the dense jungle. The men are thought ...

A new analysis of red lines inside a cave in Wales suggests they were made deliberately by ancient humans some 17,000 years ago Curious red markings found in a U.K. cave that were once dismissed as ...

Vientiane, Laos (CNN) — Rescuers in Laos say they are investigating a possible “knocking response” deep inside a flooded cave network where two men are believed to remain trapped days after one was ...

Rescuers pumped water from the flooded cave, enabling four miners to crawl out. One used diving gear to escape earlier, and two remain missing. By Isabella Kwai Four more miners trapped in a cave in ...

After a week of squeezing through the dangerous, mazelike cave network, divers Mikko Paasi and Norrased Palasing emerged from its muddy waters Wednesday to find a cause for hope. Limited time: Save 25 ...

“Every time you enter a cave there’s potential for a new discovery,” says Jut Wynne, an expeditionary scientist and assistant research professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Northern ...