The entrance to the cave looks sterilized — a stainless steel door that wouldn’t seem out of place in a hospital looks wholly foreign out here in Mammoth Cave National Park. Yet our cave guide ...

An ongoing Paleontological Resource Inventory discovered the new species, called Clavusodens mcginnisi, while collecting ...

The Heritage Trail is a half-mile long trail that starts just behind the back entry of the main lodge building ... an overlook of the historic entrance to Mammoth Cave, and Sunset Point where ...

Between the mid-1800s and 1883, a handful of stagecoaches ferried visitors from nearby towns to Mammoth Cave’s limestone entrance. Famous passengers included Dom Pedro II, the last emperor of Brazil, ...

The surface of Mammoth Cave National Park encompasses about 80 ... it lies in the Old Guide's Cemetery near the entrance. Most visitors see the eerie beauty of the caverns on some of the 10 ...

Cave City native Floyd Collins has been the subject of books, songs and even a musical since his death in 1925. His final days sparked international attention, but his legend continues today.

“Researchers and volunteers collected samples from the main Mammoth Cave system and from smaller isolated caves throughout the park that have provided new data on previously known ancient sharks ...

It may come as a surprise that the subterranean world of Mammoth Cave is not immune to the impacts of air pollution. Airborne contaminants can find their way into the cave passages, affecting delicate ...