For “Mammoth,” a new show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, he takes up contentious issues of race and climate change ...

When a villager in northern Greece broke into a limestone wall and exposed a human skull, he did not just find a fossil, he ...

There’s a cave in Illinois that watches the Ohio River go by. It’s big, strange, and way more memorable than expected.

Neanderthals repeatedly returned to the cave to store horned animal skulls, revealing this cultural tradition was transmitted over time.

In 1879, a landowner and amateur archaeologist named Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola ventured into a newly discovered cave system in northern Spain. Hoping to find prehistoric tools, he kept his eyes fixed ...

Scientists have discovered what they say is the earliest known rock art, in a cave in Indonesia. They say the image dates to more than 67,000 years ago.

Evie Carrick is a writer and editor who’s lived in five countries and visited well over 50. She now splits her time between Colorado and Paris, ensuring she doesn't have to live without skiing or L'As ...

A cave that’s been closed off to human visitors for 30 years has been found to contain high concentrations of microplastics — and that should worry you. “A lot of research has been focused on surface ...

Part of the adventure in luring your friends out to the high desert terrain in Northern California, where a valley floor spills from the northern backside of Mount Shasta, is that precious moment when ...

(Updated 10/10/23) My first experience sleeping in a cave hotel was many years ago in Santorini, in one of those typical whitewashed hotels dug into the volcanic rock and once used as inexpensive ...

The boys were sedated with Ketamine for their and the diver's protection. They had been agonizing over an impossible rescue mission for days, and time was quickly running out. A Thai boys’ soccer team ...