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Daring Explorers Find Mesoamerican Fertility Ritual In Depths Of A Mexican CaveAn ancient bracelet was consciously placed on top of this phallic-looking cave stalagmite.

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Daring Explorers Find Mesoamerican Fertility Ritual In Depths Of A Mexican CaveAn ancient bracelet was consciously placed on top of this phallic-looking cave stalagmite.
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Daring Cavers Discover A Mesomerican Fertility Ritual In The "Bowels Of Earth"

clock-iconMay 27, 2025
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A 13-Year-Old Boy Found A "Lost Sea" Beneath The US. It's So Vast, It Has Never Been Fully ExploredThe "Lost Sea" underwater lake in Sweetwater Tennessee.

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A 13-Year-Old Boy Found A "Lost Sea" Beneath The US. It's So Vast, It Has Never Been Fully ExploredThe "Lost Sea" underwater lake in Sweetwater Tennessee.
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A 13-Year-Old Boy Found A "Lost Sea" Beneath The US. It's So Vast, It Has Never Been Fully Explored

clock-iconMay 12, 2025
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Spirit Cave Man: How The World’s Oldest Mummy Rewrote 10,000 Years Of Native American HistoryMummy of Spirit Cave Man

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Spirit Cave Man: How The World’s Oldest Mummy Rewrote 10,000 Years Of Native American HistoryMummy of Spirit Cave Man
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Spirit Cave Man: How The World’s Oldest Mummy Rewrote 10,000 Years Of Native American History

clock-iconApril 21, 2025
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What Living Underground Can Do To The Mind And BodyMan standing at the entrance of a dark cave, silhouetted by light

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What Living Underground Can Do To The Mind And BodyMan standing at the entrance of a dark cave, silhouetted by light
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What Living Underground Can Do To The Mind And Body

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The Man Who Went Into A Cave And Accidentally Invented An Entire Field Of BiologyPerson in yellow jacket stands inside a large ice cave with textured blue walls and rocky ground; Swiss Alps, Moteratsch Glacier

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The Man Who Went Into A Cave And Accidentally Invented An Entire Field Of BiologyPerson in yellow jacket stands inside a large ice cave with textured blue walls and rocky ground; Swiss Alps, Moteratsch Glacier
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The Man Who Went Into A Cave And Accidentally Invented An Entire Field Of Biology

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Caves In The US That Glow Under UV Light Could Help Us Find Life On Ice WorldsStudent Jacqueline Heggen demonstrates the glow produced in Wind Cave by the minerals leached from above exposed to UV light.

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Caves In The US That Glow Under UV Light Could Help Us Find Life On Ice WorldsStudent Jacqueline Heggen demonstrates the glow produced in Wind Cave by the minerals leached from above exposed to UV light.
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Caves In The US That Glow Under UV Light Could Help Us Find Life On Ice Worlds

clock-iconMarch 25, 2025
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Never-Before-Seen Golden Cave Fish Discovered In China Still Evolving To Live Undergroundphotograph of a small, gold fish, with black spots dotted along its spine

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Never-Before-Seen Golden Cave Fish Discovered In China Still Evolving To Live Undergroundphotograph of a small, gold fish, with black spots dotted along its spine
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Never-Before-Seen Golden Cave Fish Discovered In China Still Evolving To Live Underground

clock-iconMarch 7, 2025
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New Species Of Spider Is A Tiny 1-Millimeter-Long Cave Dwelling CutieHuge cavern filled with stalactites and stalagmites with a lit pathway with roped edges.

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New Species Of Spider Is A Tiny 1-Millimeter-Long Cave Dwelling CutieHuge cavern filled with stalactites and stalagmites with a lit pathway with roped edges.
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New Species Of Spider Is A Tiny 1-Millimeter-Long Cave Dwelling Cutie

clock-iconMarch 5, 2025
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World’s Largest Underground Thermal Lake Is A 138-Meter-Long Dreamy Blue Pooltop-down photograph of Lake Neuron, a large, turquoise underground lake that is the world's biggest underground thermal lake

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World’s Largest Underground Thermal Lake Is A 138-Meter-Long Dreamy Blue Pooltop-down photograph of Lake Neuron, a large, turquoise underground lake that is the world's biggest underground thermal lake
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World’s Largest Underground Thermal Lake Is A 138-Meter-Long Dreamy Blue Pool

clock-iconFebruary 12, 2025
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Prehistoric Engravings Suggest Symbolic Behavior In Ancient HumansEngraved cores from Palaeolithic caves

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Prehistoric Engravings Suggest Symbolic Behavior In Ancient HumansEngraved cores from Palaeolithic caves
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Prehistoric Engravings Suggest Symbolic Behavior In Ancient Humans

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Sand Cave Incident: The “Greatest Cave Explorer Ever" Met A Grim Fate In 1925The front page of the Bismarck Tribune newspaper of North Dakota on February 16, 1925.

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Sand Cave Incident: The “Greatest Cave Explorer Ever" Met A Grim Fate In 1925The front page of the Bismarck Tribune newspaper of North Dakota on February 16, 1925.
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Sand Cave Incident: The “Greatest Cave Explorer Ever" Met A Grim Fate In 1925

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Did Prehistoric Humans Really Live In Caves?Caveman

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Did Prehistoric Humans Really Live In Caves?Caveman
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Did Prehistoric Humans Really Live In Caves?

clock-iconJanuary 20, 2025
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Fantastic Pit: Deepest Vertical Pit Cave In Mainland US Plunges 179 MetersEntrance to Ellison's Cave in Walker County, Georgia.

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Fantastic Pit: Deepest Vertical Pit Cave In Mainland US Plunges 179 MetersEntrance to Ellison's Cave in Walker County, Georgia.
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Fantastic Pit: Deepest Vertical Pit Cave In Mainland US Plunges 179 Meters

clock-iconOctober 25, 2024
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Traces Of Fire Found In Cave Containing Southeast Asia’s Oldest Modern Human RemainsVito Hernandez searching sediments in Tam Pà Ling for insight into the conditions in which southeast Aisa's oldes modern human fossils were deposited.

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Traces Of Fire Found In Cave Containing Southeast Asia’s Oldest Modern Human RemainsVito Hernandez searching sediments in Tam Pà Ling for insight into the conditions in which southeast Aisa's oldes modern human fossils were deposited.
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Traces Of Fire Found In Cave Containing Southeast Asia’s Oldest Modern Human Remains

clock-iconOctober 11, 2024
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Ancient Sunken Cave Bridge Reveals Humans Reached Island 2,000 Years Earlier Than Thoughtunderwater bridge, photographed from just below the surface; someone's legs are visible as they stand on the stones of the bridge

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Ancient Sunken Cave Bridge Reveals Humans Reached Island 2,000 Years Earlier Than Thoughtunderwater bridge, photographed from just below the surface; someone's legs are visible as they stand on the stones of the bridge
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Ancient Sunken Cave Bridge Reveals Humans Reached Island 2,000 Years Earlier Than Thought

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