Cavers Find Crazy Climbing Catfish in Ecuador Cave
April 21, 2015 / Ecuador, South America
Cavers recently came upon small catfish climbing up a steep waterfall during a flora and fauna inventory of a cave in Ecuador.
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Study Finds Castle Dungeon Bats Don’t Disturb Easily
April 21, 2015 / Scotland, United Kingdom, EuropeA study on bats hibernating in a 700-year-old Scottish Castle has found they don’t disturb easily.
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More Neanderthal Remains Discovered in Kurdistan Cave
Researchers recently discovered the fossilized remains of yet another Neanderthal inside Kurdistan’s Shanidar Cave.
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YouTube and Graffiti Being Used to Track Water Levels
April 21, 2015 / Saudi Arabia, AsiaResearchers in Saudi Arabia are using cave-wall graffiti and YouTube videos to construct a timeline of aquifer water levels.
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Cave Bones Reveal More Proof of British Ice Age Cannibals
April 20, 2015 / England, United Kingdom, EuropeBones found inside Gough’s Cave in Somerset have revealed more evidence of cannibalistic behavior, including human tooth marks on many of the human bones.
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Video: National Geographic’s Bat Man of Borneo
Braving mountains of guano, ammonia gas, and infectious diseases, bat ecologist Donald McFarlane visits Borneo’s Gomantong Caves to study its bat population.
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New Instrument Dates ‘Little Foot’ at 3.67 Million Years Old
April 15, 2015 / South Africa, AfricaA new dating technique has discovered a skeleton named Little Foot is among the oldest hominid skeletons ever dated at 3.67 million years old.
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Blind Trogobites Quickly Loose the Visual Part of Their Brains
April 14, 2015Recent research shows that cave-dwelling animals who loose their eyesight, rapidly loose their brain’s visual centers as well.
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Ancient Human Fossils Reveal Early Human Diversity
An ancient human skull and a jawbone found a few meters away from each other in a cave in northern Laos add to the evidence that early modern humans were physically quite varied.
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Natural Bacteria Shows Promise as Weapon Against White-nose Syndrome
April 9, 2015 / California, United States, North AmericaBacteria found naturally on some bats may prove useful in controlling the Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the fungus responsible for white-nose syndrome.
