Hidden beneath the surface, a pristine underwater cave can preserve traces of vanished worlds with a clarity that dry land rarely matches. In the still water and sealed chambers, sediments, bones, and ...

Archaeologists have unearthed rare artefacts dating to the last ice age at a cave in Australia’s Blue Mountains, providing definitive proof that the rugged ranges were once occupied by the continent’s ...

From the caves of Ice Age France to the stone enclosures of southeastern Turkey, a recurring tradition of human animal hybrids hints at trance, costume, and shamanic journeys at the dawn of culture.

LOVELL — Falling 100 feet down into a dark cave is (almost) never a good thing. It is easy to imagine: a mountain lion sprinting after an antelope at 45 mph, both animals cresting a low rise. The ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Albuquerque museum curator helps identify Speleotherium logani, a previously unknown muskox relative that roamed the region ...

The Earth of the last Ice Age (about 26,000 to 19,000 years ago) was very different from today's world. In the northern hemisphere, ice sheets up to 8 kilometers tall covered much of Europe, Asia and ...

Scientists have uncovered the remains of a vast animal community that lived in the European Arctic 75,000 years ago. The bones of 46 types of animals – including mammals, fish and birds – were ...

Archaeologists from the Australian Museum, the University of Sydney and the Australian National University in collaboration with First Nations community members have unearthed 693 stone artefacts ...

Russian scientists discovered the full carcass of a now-extinct species of bear earlier this month, its snout locked in a snarl after millennia in the frozen ground. “It is completely preserved, with ...

As the Indiana weather heats up, you're probably looking for your next outdoor adventure to be of the cooler variety. And lucky for you, these caverns and caves typically range from 50 to 60 degrees ...

Ice caves, as unique components of the cryosphere, offer invaluable archives of past and present climate conditions. Their perennial ice deposits and distinct internal dynamics provide insights into ...