Spiders are some of nature's creepiest and crawliest creatures, but some species might be getting a little bit less scary: they're going blind. New research published in the journal Molecular ...

Hidden in the darkness of a remote limestone chamber, a cluster of ancient finger marks has forced archaeologists to confront ...

Collection sites and phenotypes of entrance and cave-dwelling Leptonetela species. (A) A map showing the distribution of caves in Guizhou Province, China; red and blue circles separately indicate the ...

On a cold winter’s day in 1980, a group of recreational cavers entered a narrow, wet stream passage south of Knoxville, Tennessee. They navigated a slippery mud slope and a tight keyhole through the ...

Members of the team taking part in the "Deep Time" study eat in the Lombrives Cave in Ussat les Bains, France. AP After 40 days isolated in a dark cave in France, 15 researchers and volunteers finally ...

Firelight transformed how early humans utilized their rocky dwellings. Set of photographs of stone lamp experiment. (Medina-Alcaide et al, 2021, PLOS ONE) (CN) — Long before the Dark Ages, a longer, ...

A group of scientists who recently completed an expedition through South Africa’s Rising Star cave system has made a bold announcement: Homo naledi, an early human species with a brain one-third the ...

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A candlelight cave tour at Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve. These tours are offered during the summer at the Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve. (National Parks Service) The ...

A second dark sky park recently became certified in Oregon, three years after the state's first dark sky park was certified, and just months after 2.5 million acres of the Oregon Outback became the ...

Just when we thought we had described all the possible marine environmental recipients of plastic pollution, new research comes in to overturn the picture.