This incredibly underrated state park in Kentucky is also home to several adventuresome caves and colonies of bats. Here's ...

Many of the world’s most iconic caves—Carlsbad Caverns and Lechuguilla in New Mexico, Mammoth Cave in Kentucky—were carved out over millions of years, by the plodding drip and flow of acidic ...

Nestled in the Laurel Highlands region of southwestern Pennsylvania, this underground labyrinth is the state’s largest cave system, and boy, does it know how to make an entrance. When I first heard ...

Mitchell Caverns feels like stepping into a fantasy world with its bizarre formations. The two connected caverns, El Pakiva ...

Mammoth Cave National Park is Kentucky's only national park, but it isn't the state's only cave open to the public.

A boomerang carved from a mammoth tusk is one of the oldest in the world, and it may be even older than archaeologists ...

Woolly mammoths have become the poster child for de-extinction. The giant land mammals have long held our intrigue and ...

"Boomerang" made from mammoth tusk is likely one of the oldest known in Europe at around 40,000 years old, per analysis of this artifact from a Polish Upper Paleolithic cave ...

Yet, until now, these structures have never been studied up close. Smaller boxwork formations are found on the walls of caves on Earth and form via a similar mechanism to stalagmites and stalactites.

This cave is also a cavern, a specific type of cave that has speleothems, or crystalline cave deposits that form cave formations. Two common types of cave formations are stalactites, or pointed ...