The next presentation in the ongoing series of webinars put on by the NSS will feature a tour of the most cavernous limestone layer in North America. Join presenter Art …
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 …
A team of researchers working on identifying additional species of Geomyces have developed a new technique that allows for early identification of Geomyces destructans the fungus which causes white-nose syndrome. …
A robotic bat wing is helping to give new insights into the mechanics of bat flight. Built by researchers at Brown University, the robot wing was modelled after lesser dog-faced …
Last week, Bloomberg ran a story on the global hunt for new antibiotics to combat the spread of drug-resistant superbugs. In the article they feature caver Hazel Barton, a microbiologist …
A team of scientists studying speleothem growth in Sibera has discovered that permafrost may not be so permanent, and it may begin to melt if temperatures continue to warm. In …
As part of the ongoing series of webinars put on by the NSS, a presentation on the use of geophysics to detect solutional features in karst terrains has been announced. …
Newly obtained ages from a fragment of human lower jaw found in a Serbian cave have dated it as the oldest human ancestor ever discovered in that part of Europe. …
Earlier this week, the 10th edition of Subterranean Biology, the open access journal of the International Society for Subterranean Biology, was released online. Featuring research papers on recent discoveries of …
A paleontological study of a cave in Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula has reportedly discovered fragments of a 50,000-year-old bison skull. The fragments were found during a December 2012 expedition to Emine-Bair …
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