In one of the most baffling discoveries of the last decade, scientists have found a clue in a cave to how life might survive ...

The longest mapped network of caves in the world also contains one of the most implausible marine collections in North America. In Mammoth Cave, sharks and their kinsmen are preserved in layers of ...

(via MinuteEarth) Krubera Cave, one of our planet’s deepest known caves, extends 2200 meters into the earth – that’s a depth of nearly six Empire State Buildings. Or at least, that's as far down as ...

A new study, presented at the 17th International Congress of the Geological Society of Greece in May, found a "significant" amount of blue and transparent microplastics present in the Gourgouthakas ...

When Aidan Ward answered his phone from a clearing off the side of a road in southern New Mexico, he was exactly where he wanted to be: helping a geologist friend with cave research at Carlsbad ...