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Largest known cave art images in US by Indigenous Americans discovered in AlabamaUsing a 3D scanning process known as photogrammetry, archeologists have uncovered five previously unknown giant cave paintings.
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How are stalactites and stalagmites formed?Reference These ancient cave decorations take thousands of years to appear, building up drip by painstaking drip
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Burial of infant 'Neve' could be oldest of its kind in EuropeAn 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.
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Human skull fragments found in massive boneyard in hyenas' lava tube caveIn 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.
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Cavers discover snakes and waterfalls inside Yemen's infamous 'Well of Hell' in world-first descentCave explorers from Oman have become the first people to fully explore the infamous 'Well of Hell' sinkhole in Yemen.
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Explorers add 8 miles to world's longest known cave systemHours of survey work have added an additional 8 miles to the passageways at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky
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World's rarest seals have a secret breeding cave in CyprusScientists have discovered a set of caves in northern Cyprus where endangered monk seals have been breeding in secret.
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Decapitated Stone Age woman's head rolled into a cave in ItalyAfter a woman died and was likely dismembered, her skull went on a "long and bumpy ride."
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Deadly centipede 'king' rules over a poison hellscape caveDozens of species live in Romania's toxic Movile Cave, and a newly described centipede species is the "king" of this unique ecosystem.
