The discovery began with a blocked opening deep inside the Tulum archaeological zone, where archaeologists noticed a stone positioned in a way that suggested it had been intentionally placed to seal ...

Archaeologists in Bulgaria discovered rare 5,000-year-old textile fragments in Magura Cave, offering new insight into Early ...

Paul Wilcox descends into Devil’s Canopy Cave on Prince of Wales Island. An unlikely discovery in a cave on Prince of Wales Island could help scientists understand Earth’s climate history. A small ...

Scientists found a “long”-legged creature in a cave at the bottom of a sinkhole in Argentina and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Romero-Rincon and Lopes Ferreira (2025) At the ...

Archaeologists working in the depths of Kateřinská Cave have made a series of remarkable discoveries that challenge our understanding of ancient human activity in Central Europe. Recent excavations ...

Learn more about the diversity of tool use in Central Africa during the Stone Age.

The Lichtenstein Cave near the Lower Saxon town of Osterode is the birthplace of an archaeological sensation. Bone finds from ...

In a cave in China, a camouflaged creature was found at dusk. Li S, Mu L, Jing J, Liu J, Cheng Y, Wang B (2025) Zoosystematics and Evolution When rain falls in southern China, it creates crevices, ...

In 1963, Texas transportation crews drilling near I-35 in Georgetown punched through rock and uncovered a massive underground cave system hidden for thousands of years. Now, more than 60 years later, ...

At the bottom of a sinkhole in a hard-to-reach cave of western Argentina, a pale yellow creature with “long” legs climbed across a pile of bat guano. Something about it caught the attention of ...