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Cave explorers discover a 19th-century mining scene preserved like a time capsule
By JoAnna Wendel published
While exploring an old mine in northwestern England, a group of cavers stumbled upon 200-year-old personal items and equipment left by 19th-century cobalt miners.

Giant sinkhole with a forest inside found in China
By Stephanie Pappas published
A team of Chinese scientists has discovered a giant new sinkhole with a forest at its bottom.

Largest known cave art images in US by Indigenous Americans discovered in Alabama
By Callum McKelvie published
Using a 3D scanning process known as photogrammetry, archeologists have uncovered five previously unknown giant cave paintings.

How are stalactites and stalagmites formed?
By Laura Mears published
Reference These ancient cave decorations take thousands of years to appear, building up drip by painstaking drip

Burial of infant 'Neve' could be oldest of its kind in Europe
By Tom Garlinghouse published
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.

Human skull fragments found in massive boneyard in hyenas' lava tube cave
By Mindy Weisberger published
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.

Cavers discover snakes and waterfalls inside Yemen's infamous 'Well of Hell' in world-first descent
By Harry Baker published
Cave explorers from Oman have become the first people to fully explore the infamous 'Well of Hell' sinkhole in Yemen.

Explorers add 8 miles to world's longest known cave system
By Laura Geggel published
Hours of survey work have added an additional 8 miles to the passageways at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky
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