Speleothems, or dripstones, are excellent climate archives because the chemical composition of the calcium carbonate in speleothems changes with the climatic conditions above the cave. The picture ...

Dr. Maxime Aubert, archeologist and geochemist, uses his headlamp to examine the cave art at Leang Lompoa in Maros, Indonesia. Justin Mott I struggle to keep my footing on a narrow ridge of earth ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed what could be the oldest full weapon system in North America in a remote cave system in ...

Discovered in 2000 by an amateur cave explorer, the Grotte de Cussac is a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France. Humans who lived here around 30,000 years ago carved horses, mammoths and rhinoceros ...