In a cave that hardly a soul had entered in 500 years, two cave dwellers discovered 14 exquisite artifacts from an ancient but under-recorded Mexican culture. After two cave explorers tipped off ...

The explorers also found another bracelet, a giant snail shell, and pieces of black stone discs similar to pyrite mirrors—all ...

Explorations of a submerged passage in the Tlayococ cave in Mexico led to an undiscovered room. Within the room, cave explorers discovered bracelets sitting atop stalagmites and other artifacts from a ...

Between 2008 and 2014, scientists rappelled down cliffs to reach a dozen bearded vulture nests and begin analyzing what was ...

A fragment of ancient reptile skin discovered in an Oklahoma cave is changing what scientists know about early life on land. Dated to nearly 300 million years ago, this fossilized skin is now ...

The discovery of more than 100 prehistoric structures in the Cova Dones cave in Spain makes it one of the most significant prehistoric underground sites in the world. Archaeologists found stalagmites ...

Scientists discovered a 675-year-old shoe perfectly preserved in a vulture's nest in Spain. Researchers say a lot can be learned about human history and ecology from studying bearded vulture nests.

It’s the Kingdom of the calcite skull. A horned hominid skull might sound like something out of Greek mythology, but it actually could be a separate species of human ancestor that lived alongside ...

Ziegler’s bent-toed geckos, or Cyrtodactylus ziegleri, were first discovered in 2008 in a neighboring province of Vietnam. Photos show the roughly 3- to 4-inch-long geckos and their blotchy brown ...