14,700 years ago, in a cave in Somerset, our ancestors were eating other people. Museum research reveals these Ice Age Britons weren't eating human flesh out of necessity but as part of a ritual. 'The ...

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A tourism brochure for New Zealand's Waitomo Caves from 1928 What’s waiting for us within the mysterious depths of a cave? It’s been the stuff of legend and campfire stories for centuries.

This story appears in the February 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. She is lying in a cave, dying. Legs and arms but knobby sticks, Lidia Maiyu is curled up close to the campfire.

When Sergio García-Dils de la Vega kissed his girlfriend, Pilar Orche, goodbye at the entrance to Krubera Cave, he promised to return the next day. But after teammate Bernard Tourte bruised his ...

Son Doong Cave is the largest cave in the world. Located in the Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park, this massive cave has its own ecosystem, a weather system, a river and a jungle. Only a limited ...

The visitor might have thought the lost snack was merely a piece of garbage someone else could have picked up. But the post explained how the food source disrupted the cave’s fragile ecology and ...

Scientists have for the first time discovered a cave on the Moon. At least 100m deep, it could be an ideal place for humans to build a permanent base, they say. It is just one in probably hundreds ...

Why it's incredible: The cave is so deep, the world's tallest building could fit inside it. The Hranice Abyss — or "Hranická propast," in Czech — is the deepest known freshwater cave in the ...

The Thai cave complex where 12 boys and their football coach became trapped is a snaking system of caverns and crevices which posed a range of problems for rescuers. Some stretches of the Tham ...

These early artists decorated walls of caves with delicate, dramatic animal paintings. The multicolored cascades of prey and predator animals -- bison, deer, bears, cattle, mammoths, and reindeer ...