Progress Update on Bulgarian Speleological Project in Albania
This November it will be 20 years since cavers first began to look at Albania’s caves. In those past 20 years, speleologists from Bulgarian and Albanian have studied nearly 300 …
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Underground River Discovered Beneath Amazon
August 26, 2011 / Brazil, South AmericaBrazilian 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 …
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Five-Year Study of Cuba’s Mexico Cave System Concludes
August 25, 2011 / Cuba, North AmericaA five-year scientific study on the Mexico cave system in the Sierra de Cubitas Mountains of Cuba has recently concluded. The Eduardo Alfredo Martel Speleologist Group led the research which …
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Martian Sinkhole Discovered
August 19, 2011A photo taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter this past July seems to indicate a sinkhole with an opening in the bottom. Experts have calculated that given the angle of …
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Prehistoric Bird Discovered Under Australia’s Nullabor Plains
Fossilised remains of a prehistoric bird have been discovered within Leaena’s Breath Cave under the Nullabor Plain in Western Australia. An almost complete skeleton, it was unearthed amid dozens of …
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NCKRI’s Bat Inventory and Monitoring Workshop Is On Now
August 11, 2011 / New Mexico, United States, North AmericaA three-day workshop on inventorying and monitoring bat populations is on now at the National Cave and Karst Research Institute in Carlsbad. Hosted by the U.S. Forest Service, the workshop …
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First International Planetary Cave Research Workshop
August 10, 2011 / New Mexico, United States, North AmericaThe First International Planetary Cave Research Workshop: Implications for Astrobiology, Climate, Detection, and Exploration is the first in a continuing series of meetings that are intended to promote the exchange …
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New Species of Cave Shrimp Found in Nevada Cave
August 8, 2011 / Nevada, United States, North AmericaA tiny, colorless crustacean, first discovered in November 2008, officially became a new species earlier this year when a pair of researchers named the creature and described it in the …
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Freshwater Stromatolites Discovered in Mulu’s Deer Cave
During a recent talk entitled “Freshwater Stromatolites in Deer Cave, Sarawak – A Unique Geobiological Cave Formation”, Professor Joyce Lundberg of Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada revealed the presence of …
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Related Cave Beetles Separated for 20 Million Years
A recently discovered blind cave beetle has helped shed light on the paleogeographic history of the Balkans. Found in two caves in Bulgaria’s Rhodopi Mountains, the beetle has been assigned …
