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Were Neanderthals the Earliest Cave Artists? New Research in Spain Points to the Possibility
Archaeologists pushed back the date of cave paintings at three sites to 65,000 years ago—20,000 years before the arrival of humans in Europe
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World’s Largest Underwater Cave System Discovered in Mexico
The 215-mile sunken freshwater labyrinth is a trove of ancient Maya artifacts
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UV Light Could Help Stop the Bat-Killing White Nose Syndrome
Research shows the fungus is susceptible to UV light. The problem is getting bats into the tanning beds
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Take a Virtual Tour of a Mysterious Pictish Cave in Scotland
Archaeologists have created a 3D model of the fascinating, but hard-to-access Sculptor’s Cave
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Winding Ice Age Cave Discovered Beneath Montreal
The cave stretches for more than 600 feet and splinters off into a number of different passageways
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Archaeologists Date Pre-Hispanic Puerto Rican Rock Art for the First Time
A new analysis looks at the thousands of images found in caves on Mona Island, a spiritual hub for the Taino culture
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Dine 21 Stories Underground in This 345-Million-Year-Old Cavern
Cavern Grotto, a new restaurant in Arizona, opens inside the largest dry cavern system in the country
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Cave Dragons Exist—And Saving Them Could Be Key to Protecting Drinking Water
New DNA techniques are letting researchers track down the largest, strangest cave animals in the world
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Explore an Ancient Cave City in Armenia
Residents lived in Old Khndzoresk up until the 1950s
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Ancient Human Cousin May Have Lived Alongside Early Homo Sapiens
Homo naledi may have been much younger—and more advanced—than previously thought
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Scientists Extract DNA From Ancient Humans Out of Cave Dirt
The new technique promises to transform the study of the hominid family tree
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Researchers Work to Take the Bias Out Of Facial Reconstruction
Instead of relying on European-centric data sets, researchers used a global database to help image a 13,600-year-old woman from Thailand
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New Technique Shows San Rock Art Is 5,000 Years Old
Using a highly refined form of carbon dating, researchers were able to date the pigments in art in Botswana, Lesotho and South Africa
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Artifacts Found in Indonesian Cave Show Complexities of Ice Age Culture
Pendants and buttons as well as carvings suggest the inhabitants of Wallacea were as advanced as Europeans during the Ice Age
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Smithsonian Journeys Travel Quarterly: Cuba
Memories of a Runaway Cuban Slave
A former sugar plantation slave recalls fleeing to a cave in the woods and the new dangers that awaited him there
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Humans May Have Hunted Cave Lions to Extinction—For Throw Rugs
Dear cave lions: We’re so, so sorry.
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Magnificent Millipede Has 414 Legs and Four Penises
Meet Illacme tobini, a newly described species of millipede discovered in a cave in Sequoia National Park
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Archaeologists Are Trying to Digitally Preserve an Ancient Cave Before It’s Demolished
The 5th-century cave is in the way of an airport expansion
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A Rare Blind Salamander’s Eggs Are Finally Hatching
Biologists have waited with bated breath for months
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