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 ...

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 ...

A town in the Khyber district of northwestern Pakistan is home to hundreds of caves where women and their families live in grim conditions. Jamrud, a town in the Khyber district of Khyber ...

Isotope analysis of limestone cave deposits indicates repeated humid periods in the Saharo-Arabian Desert over the past eight million years. The Saharo-Arabian Desert is one of the world’s largest ...

A cave painting on an Indonesian island is believed to be the oldest known evidence of storytelling in art, researchers said on Thursday. Scientists from Australia’s Griffith University ...