With high carbon dioxide, low oxygen and no photosynthesis, here’s how an entire ecosystem persists in one of the world’s most extreme environments. Life, as we know it, is exceptionally good at ...

Beneath the United States lies a surprising network of caves shaped over millions of years. Some feel almost otherworldly, with strange rock formations and the occasional glow from naturally occurring ...

OK. This is a wild story. Cave explorer Mark Dickey emerged above ground last week after a rescue operation that made news headlines around the world. Dickey became extremely sick after descending ...

(The Christian Science Monitor) This time it was a team of archaeologists, rather than a Bedouin goat herder, who made a potentially history-shaping discovery. The team found a 12th cave that they say ...

Dating from the 2nd century BCE to 480 CE, the Ajanta Caves are a series of 30 rock-cut Buddhist sanctuaries carved into a horseshoe-shaped cliff. They are renowned for their radiant murals, delicate ...

India's caves are thousands of years old. Some date back to the Stone Age. The earliest people to use caves were from the Mesolithic period. They lived in rock shelters and painted scenes from daily ...