Discoveries at a Üçağızlı II cave in southern Turkey suggest that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens made similar tools, hunted ...

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 ...

DNA preservation on cave walls is highly variable, but scientists say their work is an important step on the path toward ...

CAMDENTON, Mo. — Staff for Bridal Cave in Camdenton made a prehistoric discovery of claw marks thought to be made by an extinct species of bear from more than 12,000 years ago. According to Bridal ...

Discover a Minecraft seed that spawns you directly near a massive lush cave system filled with glow berries, moss, and stunning underground terrain. This video showcases the world generation, ...

A new protein analysis of Homo naledi skeletons reveals a curious twist—none of them seem to have Y chromosomes. Researchers have excavated hundreds of Homo naledi bones from the cave system known as ...

Researchers exploring Phantom Springs Cave near Balmorhea have documented new species in one of North America’s deepest underwater cave systems. The fragile ecosystem, accessible only to specialized ...

Drugs were found hidden inside a sea cave on island of Ponza Italian police divers have discovered a stash of drugs hidden in a sea-cave accessible by a submerged tunnel on one of Italy’s popular ...

Greta Binford was hiking one fall day near Wahkeena Falls and trying to take it easy after tearing her ACL. She began flipping over small boulders to see what she could find, as she often enjoys ...

Deep within South Africa's Wonderwerk Cave, a team of researchers has uncovered compelling evidence that early hominins, likely Homo erectus, were using fire as far back as 1.79 million years ago.

An excavated cave near Haifa, Israel, may offer archaeologists an unusually direct record from a poorly documented phase of human evolution. Researchers say the site captures one preserved episode of ...