A group of 10 cavers from all over the United States recently made some exciting discoveries while on an expedition inside Lechuguilla Cave in New Mexico’s Carlsbad Caverns National Park. …
White-nose syndrome has been confirmed in federally endangered gray bats in Tennessee’s Hawkins and Montgomery counties. Although previously documented in six hibernating bat species, including the federally endangered Indiana bat, …
Scientists have discovered two prehistoric flutes at Geissenkloesterle Cave in Germany’s Swabian Jura region. The flutes, made of bird bone and mammoth ivory, have been dated to between 42,000 and …
An international team of scientists have recently discovered some of earliest known art in a rock shelter near the France’s famous Chauvet Cave. On a 1.5 metric ton (3000+ pound) …
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 …
A giant ice cave in the Austria’s Dachstein mountain recently played host to scientists from the Austrian space forum (Oesterreichisches Weltraum Forum) testing technology for a future expedition to Mars. …
Despite a thorough search for white-nose syndrome in Britain. It has yet to be found. A group of volunteers monitoring Britain’s 17 species of bats this spring as they emerged …
A new mineral has recently been discovered in a Spanish cave. Located in the northern region of Cantabria, the cave, known as El Soplao, contains the only known deposit of …
An international team of researchers studying viruses in Germany have discovered that bats act as a natural host for paramyxoviruses, the family of viruses responsible for measles, mumps, pneumonias and …
An ancient skeleton recently became the latest archaeological specimen to disappear from a cenote in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. Dubbed Young Hol Chan II, the 10,000-year-old skeleton was discovered in 2010 …
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