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Adult Female Neanderthal Skeleton Found at Sima de las Palomas
A team from the Spain’s University of Murcia has uncovered the first skeleton of adult female Neanderthal along the European Mediterranean coast. The excavation took place at the Sima de …
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Rare Peach Blossom Jellyfish Discovered in Chinese Cave
A rare type of freshwater jellyfish has been found in an underwater cave in southern China. Thousands of endangered freshwater jellyfish were discovered by a group of police officers conducting …
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New Study of Switzerland’s Plaine Morte Glacier
September 8, 2011 / Switzerland, EuropeA team of researchers from the universities of Bern, Freiburg and Lausanne recently began to try to answer the question; where does the melt water from Switzerland’s Plaine Morte glacier …
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New Research of Jersey Cave Reveals Near Continuous Neanderthal Use
September 7, 2011 / United Kingdom, EuropeNew investigations at a collapsed cave on the island of Jersey off France’s north coast reveals an almost continuous use by Neanderthals for over a quarter of a million years. …
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Izgubljeni Raj 2011: An Expedition to Tolminski Migovec
A month long expedition to Tolminski Migovec, Slovenia recently concluded. The trip, which went from July 15th until August 15th, was undertaken by 20 members from the Imperial College Caving …
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Battle for Bats in Chicago this October
September 5, 2011 / Illinois, United States, North AmericaOn Saturday, October 15, 2011 Bat Conservation International will be holding a special half-day Bat Symposium at Chicago’s Field Museum entitled The Battle for Bats after a short documentary that …
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Developers Rushing Regulations Threaten Croatia’s Cave Creatures
According to cave biologists, many species of animals, millions of years old, could be wiped out by development in Croatia in advance of it joining the European Union. Recent research …
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Tasmanian Tiger Footprints Found in Australia’s Jewel Cave
Cavers recently discovered the footprints of the extinct Tasmanian tiger in a cave in Western Australia. The extremely rare footprints were found in soft mud in Augusta’s Jewel Cave while …
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A Quick Look Inside Canada’s Riverbend Cave
September 3, 2011 / Canada, North AmericaCanada’s Globe and Mail has a short photo story out covering a visit on August 31st, 2011 to Riverbend Cave at British Columbia’s Horne Lake Caves Provincial Park. Horne Lake …
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The Upcoming 3rd Middle East Speleology Symposium
The 3rd Middle East Speleology Symposium will be held this September 23rd to the 25th for the third time in fifteen years. The event, which occurs every five years is …
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Amazing Results from the First International Meeting of the Photographers of the Underworld
With the First International Conference of Cave Photographers winding up on August 20th, the photos taken during the event have started to be released on the internet. The recently uploaded …
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Location of Scotland’s Finest Formations Kept Secret
September 2, 2011 / Scotland, United Kingdom, EuropeIn order to protect the amazing formations found earlier this year in a new cave, the Grampian Speleological Group based in Edinburgh, has decided to keep the coordinates of the …
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Lava Cave Under Auckland School’s Playing Field Reopened
September 1, 2011 / New Zealand, OceaniaA lava cave under Auckland’s Hebron Christian College’s playing field was recently reopened after being covered over 30 years ago. The cave, which is about 40 meters (131 feet) long …
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New Rescue Vehicle for England’s Cave Rescue Organization
September 1, 2011 / England, United Kingdom, EuropeThis week, the England’s Cave Rescue Organisation (CRO) took possession of their spiffy new rescue vehicle, CRO3. The customized Land Rover Defender 130 will be used as an off-road ambulance …
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Bracken Bat Cave: World’s Biggest Bat Show Opens to Public
August 31, 2011 / Texas, United States, North AmericaBracken Bat Cave, home of the world’s largest bat colony and one of the largest concentration of mammals on earth has been opened to the public for the first time. …
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