A new species of cave dwelling tarantula has been discovered in the sandstone/quartizitic caves of Brazil’s Chapada Diamantina National Park. Described by Brazilian researchers in the current issue of the … Read More
A planned expansion of one of the world’s largest iron-ore mining complexes is threatening to destroy dozens of archaeologically significant caves in the Amazon. Vale, a Brazilian metals and mining … Read More
A new genus and species of cave dwelling cavernicolous pomatiopsidae has just been described. First discovered in 2005 in a cave in Serra do Ramalho, Bahia, Brazil, Spiripockia punctata is … Read More
A new book highlighting Brazil’s caves is being launched later this month. Titled Caves in Brazil (Cavernas no Brasil), the soon to be released book promises to take readers on … Read More
Members of the Pierre Martin Speleology Group (GPME) are celebrating the recent discovery of a large new chamber in Brazil’s Santana Cave. First discovered on September 7th, the chamber, filled … Read More
Recent discoveries in caves beneath the Amazon jungle are causing a problem for a planned mining operation. Cavers exploring some of the estimated 1,000 caves in the area have discovered … Read More
In May 2012, Dr. Luiz Eduardo Panisset Travassos and his PhD student Bruno Durão Rodrigues went to the Brazilian Amazon Forest to register the probable first Brazilian case of rock … Read More
Researchers working in Lapa do Santo cave in central eastern Brazil have discovered what is believed to be the oldest rock carving found the Americas so far. Found in 2009, … Read More
Brazilian scientists have discovered a new river in the Amazon basin. What makes it especially interested is that it runs ~4 kilometers below the Amazon river. The newly discovered river … Read More
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