Evidence from caves in France and Spain shows Neanderthals made symbolic art long before Homo sapiens, reshaping ideas about ...

Neanderthals inhabited western Eurasia from about 400,000 years ago until their extinction about 40,000 years ago and have often been caricatured as the archetypal "cavemen". Questions about their ...

A cave in northern Greenland shows the Arctic once thawed under mild conditions. Scientists say even small warming can ...

The Chemistry Behind Cave Formation Cave formation starts with a simple chemical reaction between water and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, creating carbonic acid. This weak acid forms when ...

Hidden inside Vietnam’s Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park is Son Doong, the largest cave on Earth. It’s so vast that a Boeing ...

Cosmic Cavern in Berryville, Arkansas, is best known for its two subterranean lakes. The deep blue lakes look like the waters ...

Hanging above C.J. Page’s head is the smiling mouth of a drooling monster at least, that’s what it looked like to me. Lathered in dripping, waxy calcite deposits, the mouth is actually a massive, ...

Hidden deep under the snow and even deeper under the earth is an underground river source unknown that trickles out from fissures in a limestone wall and flows through the tunnels and broken rocks of ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A calcite formation named Snowy River could prove a gold mine for scientists. Snowy River, believed to be the largest continuous calcite formation in the world, was discovered in ...

From the Middle Bronze Age, Egypt played a crucial role in the appearance of calcite-alabaster artifacts in Israel, and the development of the local gypsum-alabaster industry. The absence of ancient ...

A new study allows for the first time the distinction between calcite-alabaster originating in Israel from that originating in Egypt. Furthermore, it confirms that calcite-alabaster objects, such as ...

From the Middle Bronze Age, Egypt played a crucial role in the appearance of calcite-alabaster artifacts in Israel, and the development of the local gypsum-alabaster industry. The absence of ancient ...