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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Marina stood at the mouth of the Rising Star cave and looked inside. Outside, it was the rainy season in this grassland part of South Africa, home to jackals and porcupines and cobra snakes and ...

We all know how to use flashcards properly, right? WRONG! It turns out many of us may have been using flashcards incorrectly all along – oops… To find out where you might be going wrong ...

Foreign divers, including Ivan Karadzic (2nd left) and Erik Brown (3rd right), were part of the extensive rescue operations The rescuers who worked to save the group trapped in a Thai cave were a ...

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.

Here are 10 famous caves in Arizona and how to visit them. Colossal Cave Mountain Park is a popular attraction southeast of Tucson. The park is best known for its extensive limestone cave system ...

A view of Hranická Propast from above. The cave extends a quarter of a mile beneath the Earth. (Credit: Jiří Komárek/Wikimedia Commons) A cave in the Czech Republic has just been crowned the world's ...

A geology professor from the University of South Florida discovered a 5600-year-old stone bridge in an ancient cave that ...

In the 1980s, researchers excavating a cave in the Judean Desert, in Israel, uncovered a seed that was subsequently dated to sometime between 993 and 1202 AD, making it approximately 1,000 years old.