Caves
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Pinwheel Cave rock art in California may depict hallucinogenic 'trance flower'Starting about 400 years ago, Indigenous people in California had hallucinogenic ceremonies in a cave by Santa Barbara.
By Laura Geggel Published
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Ice age mining camp found 'frozen in time' in underwater Mexican caveCave divers found a mysterious passageway that led to an ice age ochre mine.
By Laura Geggel Published
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'Exquisite' dinosaur-age cockroaches discovered preserved in amberA pair of 99-million-year-old cave-dwelling cockroaches are rewriting the early history of when bugs first moved into caves.
By Rafi Letzter Published
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Humans Crawled Through a Cave 14,000 Years Ago. We Can Still See Their Perfectly Preserved Footprints.By Laura Geggel Published
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Climate Change Drove Some Neanderthals to CannibalismSome Neanderthals resorted to desperate (and gruesome) measures to survive.
By Mindy Weisberger Published
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Astronauts Spent 6 Nights in a Pitch-Black Cave, and Emerged with a Brand-New Species of CrustaceanAn international team of astronauts has discovered new life (in a cave below Italy).
By Brandon Specktor Published
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Mount Sedom Hides the Longest Salt Cave on EarthMalham 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.
By Rafi Letzter Published
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Scientists Just Discovered What May Be Canada's Largest Cave. And It Looks Like the Sarlacc's Pit.A helicopter team counting caribou in Canada recently made an unexpected discovery.
By Mindy Weisberger Published
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Ice Age Cave Art Found Under Layers of Centuries-Old GraffitiNewfound cave carvings from the ice age were obscured for centuries by graffiti.
By Mindy Weisberger Published
