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An endangered Mediterranean monk seal.

World's rarest seals have a secret breeding cave in Cyprus

By Harry Baker published

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

Seals
Archaeologist Lucia Castagna recovers the 5,600-year-old human skull at the top of a vertical shaft in the Marcel Loubens cave, in the Bologna area of northern Italy.

Decapitated Stone Age woman's head rolled into a cave in Italy

By Laura Geggel published

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

Archaeology
All hail the king of the cave; long may he reign.

Deadly centipede 'king' rules over a poison hellscape cave

By Mindy Weisberger published

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

Animals
A digitally enhanced image of the Indigenous pinwheel drawing that researchers made with a technique called D-Stretch.

Pinwheel Cave rock art in California may depict hallucinogenic 'trance flower'

By Laura Geggel published

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

Archaeology
With only a flashlight to light the way, a CINDAQ diver explores the ancient ochre mine. At the end of the last ice age, these caves were dry, but would have been devoid of any natural light.

Ice age mining camp found 'frozen in time' in underwater Mexican cave

By Laura Geggel published

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

Archaeology
One of the ancient cockroaches is pictured preserved in its amber grave.

'Exquisite' dinosaur-age cockroaches discovered preserved in amber

By Rafi Letzter published

A pair of 99-million-year-old cave-dwelling cockroaches are rewriting the early history of when bugs first moved into caves.

Dinosaurs
Paleolithic footprints in cave

Humans Crawled Through a Cave 14,000 Years Ago. We Can Still See Their Perfectly Preserved Footprints.

By Laura Geggel published

Archaeology
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Climate Change Drove Some Neanderthals to Cannibalism

By Mindy Weisberger published

Some Neanderthals resorted to desperate (and gruesome) measures to survive.

Climate Change
"[It's] like walking in an underground wonderland," said NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, describing his experience underground in the Sa Grutta caves in Sardinia, Italy.

Astronauts Spent 6 Nights in a Pitch-Black Cave, and Emerged with a Brand-New Species of Crustacean

By Brandon Specktor published

An international team of astronauts has discovered new life (in a cave below Italy).

Crustaceans
An image shows the entrance to the salt cave under Mount Sedom.

Mount Sedom Hides the Longest Salt Cave on Earth

By Rafi Letzter published

Malham Cave in the Negev Desert is the longest salt cave in the world, measuring more than 6 miles (10 kilometers) in total length, researchers say.

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