Caves

An infant burial discovered in the Italian Alps sheds light on how the hunter-gatherers of Europe dealt with issues of personhood and status 10,000 years ago.

In the Umm Jirsan lava tube, the longest such structure in Saudi Arabia, scientists discovered piles bones belonging to animals that hyenas devoured there for thousands of years.

Cave explorers from Oman have become the first people to fully explore the infamous 'Well of Hell' sinkhole in Yemen.

Hours of survey work have added an additional 8 miles to the passageways at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky

Scientists have discovered a set of caves in northern Cyprus where endangered monk seals have been breeding in secret.

After a woman died and was likely dismembered, her skull went on a "long and bumpy ride."

Dozens of species live in Romania's toxic Movile Cave, and a newly described centipede species is the "king" of this unique ecosystem.

Starting about 400 years ago, Indigenous people in California had hallucinogenic ceremonies in a cave by Santa Barbara.

Cave divers found a mysterious passageway that led to an ice age ochre mine.