The main types of caves, according to science
These are the most important cave types that you need to know.
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3D scans reveal largest cave art in North America
The glyphs include humanoid figures, abstract shapes, and an 11-foot-long serpent
What is the world’s deepest cave?
Time to meet the 'Everest of the deep'.
Spanish cave paintings confirmed to have been made by the Neanderthals
They painted it thousands of years before we got to Europe.
The world’s oldest known cave painting in Indonesia shows a chonky wild pig
Some 455 centuries ago, these people must have seen a really big pig.
Artwork in Indonesia might be the new ‘oldest’ hunting scene by modern humans
Indonesia may be the home of the oldest cave paintings of hunting bands found in the world. A section of ...
Archaeologists find first prehistoric figurative cave art in the Balkans
It's the first find of its kind in the area.
Scientists find oldest figurative cave painting
The origin of these artists, however, remains a mystery.
Early humans grew grains for beer, not bread, new study suggests
The researchers also recreated the brewing process in the lab -- for science, of course.
Human hybrid — Ancient human relatives interbred with each other
How I met your Neanderthal mother.
Oldest human fossil outside Africa suggests our species left the continent 100,000 years earlier than thought
A 200,000-year-old human jawbone found in a cave in Israel is rewriting history.
Longest underwater cave in the world found in Mexico
Researchers also discovered gorgeous cenotes that may be connected with Maya religious beliefes.
Human bones in underwater Mexico cave dated to 13,000 years ago — thanks to a pelvis-stalagmite
Thieves plundered the cave, but they left researchers a bone.
Flints and bone from at least 300,000 years ago could be the first non-dietary tool use
Digs at one of the most amazing anthropological sites in the world come across something big.
World’s deepest underwater cave discovered in Czech Republic — explorers still haven’t reached the bottom
It's so deep explorers had to use a submersible robot to map the cave. The rope wasn't long enough, though.
Gene mutation helped early humans cope with smoke infested caves, but not Neanderthals
Early humans were far better smokers than Neanderthals, and this might have mattered a lot in the end.
How caves form and the different types of caves
Shaped by erosion, fire, or water, caves have some surprising but always beautiful births.
“Cave of Forgotten Dreams” may be earliest painting of volcano eruption
Volcanic eruptions have fascinated and frightened people for millennia, and many have tried to describe them in different ways. Whether ...
Amateur archaeologists find 560,000 year old human tooth
A half a million year old human tooth was discovered in France in a place called Tautavel, one of Europe's ...
Earth-loving Hades: meet the centipede from Hell
Deep below ground level, 3,500 feet (1000 meters) down a Croatian cave, scientists have discovered a new species of centipede. ...
New bug species discovered in world’s deepest cave
lustration of Duvalius abyssimus. / Sinc - José Antonio Peñas A new species of ground beetle perfectly adapted to extreme environments ...
Oldest most complete skeleton found in the New World
In what is quite an exciting study, a mixed team of researchers and cave divers announced the discovery of a ...