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 …
In celebration of National Park Week this week, a number of National Parks are offering free cave tours until April 29th. Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park has two free cave …
After being closed for two years, Iowa’s Maquoketa Caves State Park recently reopened its caves to visitors. The caves, closed by officials in 2010 to try to protect bats from …
During the first-ever Missouri Bat Festival held yesterday, U-Haul unveiled its newest SuperGraphic featuring the red bat and Missouri’s Onondaga Cave State Park. U-Haul SuperGraphics are the educational, thought-provoking images …
Encouraging results from this past winters surveys of New York’s hibernating bats show a number of caves reporting substantial increases in their bat populations. While surveys in previous years seemed …
Georgia’s Cloudland Canyon State Park is holding an “Outdoor Adventure Weekend” next weekend. The event, sponsored by Friends of Cloudland Canyon State Park, will feature rappelling down a 6 meter …
Scientists conducting a biological inventory of a gypsum cave northeast of Carlsbad, New Mexico, have discovered a new species of a freshwater shrimp-like crustacean. The specimen, a new species of …
A new guide-book on Indiana’s caves and karst is set to be released early next month. Published by the Indiana University Press, the book “A Guide to Caves and Karst …
CaveSim, the intelligent crawl-through obstacle course which wowed cavers at the 2011 NSS Convention in Colorado is coming to West Virginia this summer. The 15 meter (50 foot) long …
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, working with state and federal agency partners, have released new national white-nose syndrome decontamination protocols. The protocols, which help reduce the risk of transmission, …
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