During the week, Ciara Smart is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Tasmania. On the weekends, she’s a member of a caving club that discovered the deepest cave in Australia over the ...

Have you ever heard of a speleothem? Even if you haven’t you’ve probably heard of a stalactite or a stalagmite - you know, those structures formed in caves from minerals soaking out of water. Well, ...

A buried cave in Australia's Northern Territory has changed the story of Australia's first people. Archaeologists uncovered tools, pigments, and food remnants dating back more than 20,000 years, deep ...

Vandals defaced carvings on the walls at Koonalda Cave in South Australia, which officials said are "some of the earliest evidence of Aboriginal occupation of that part of the country" Jason Hahn is a ...

Research shows Buchan Caves to be about 3.5 million years old and that Victoria's East Gippsland has remained tectonically active for long times, even into the present-day, which is why residents ...

Vandals have destroyed sacred artwork in South Australia thought to be about 30,000 years old. The Nullarbor Plain art, which are designs carved into the chalk limestone walls of the Koonalda Cave, ...

Researchers analyzing ancient fossils from caves across Western Australia have uncovered a completely new species of bettong along with two new woylie subspecies—remarkable finds made bittersweet by ...