In Belize’s Actun Tunichil Muknal cave, a sacred Maya site, plants grow in darkness, sparking concerns about how tourism affects its fragile ecosystem.

But even getting important messages (“we found him!”) passed around inside a cave environment is enough of a challenge. We’ve seen APRS used for tracking high-altitude balloon payloads ...

The cave environment made modeling difficult, but Smith saw an opportunity to look for more evidence of long-term occupation. During the project, the team chanced upon a Viking Age bead ...

In order to do this one needs to get inside the cave, and this is not easy: a temperature of approximately 48° C and the air saturated with humidity represents a situation similar to being ‘cooked in ...

Finding the new millipede in the aphotic zones of both caves suggests it is “specialized to the cave environment,” according to researchers. Want to read more? Check out our stories here.

Explore Mammoth Cave National Park, the longest cave system on Earth, featuring the richest known habitat for cave wildlife in the world. It may be difficult to think of caves as spacious and grand, ...