It could’ve been worse. For nearly two decades, California desert visitors hoping to see the caverns’ massive stalagmites and ...

MAMMOTH CAVE, Ky. — Though the federal shutdown has affected several national parks across America, Mammoth Cave National ...

Cliff-rappelling scientists uncovered a crossbow bolt, part of a slingshot and 25 shoes in ancient vulture nesting sites ...

Indigenous Australians may have been early "paleontologists," not big-game hunters, according to a new analysis ...

Wednesday, Oct. 22 is the 22nd day of the ongoing U.S. government shutdown, making it the second-longest in history. Learn ...

Incision marks likely made by humans on the fossilised bone of an ancient kangaroo challenges the ‘humans wiped out ...

New research led by UNSW Sydney paleontologists challenges the idea that Indigenous Australians hunted Australia's megafauna to extinction, suggesting instead they were fossil collectors.

Palaeontologists say there is no hard evidence in the fossil record that extinct Australian megafauna were butchered by First ...

In light of these challenges, Friends of Mammoth Cave is making an appeal for public support. They stress that even modest ...

Hidden River Cave in Horse Cave was closed to the public for decades until a local effort to clean it out began.