The longest known underwater cave in the world is even longer than we thought. As of the start of this year, cave divers have mapped 524 kilometers (325.6 miles) of a subterranean water 'web' near ...

The Geminids meteor shower is known for its dazzling display of bright and fast meteors with dozens appearing each hour.

Visitors look view celestial objects during a night sky viewing party at Mammoth Cave National Park. NPS Photo. MAMMOTH CAVE, ...

Under lantern light and echoing stone, more than a thousand people gathered underground Sunday for the 46th annual Cave Sing ...

A brand-new holiday attraction is lighting up the edge of Mammoth Cave National Park with Christmas at the Cave.

MAMMOTH CAVE, Ky. (WBKO) -Mammoth Cave National Park welcomed music lovers Sunday for their 46th annual Cave Sing. The event ...

Scientists have sequenced the oldest-ever RNA from a 39,000-year-old woolly mammoth named Yuka, whose remains were found frozen on a bluff in northeastern Siberia. The discovery contradicts the ...

It was 2012 when Love Dalén, a paleogeneticist at Stockholm University, first laid eyes upon a special specimen on a lab table in eastern Siberia. "Our Russian collaborators said, 'Come here into this ...

In the final moments of Yuka the woolly mammoth’s life, he may have been trying to outsprint a cave lion. Yuka’s hind legs bear scratches — and in his muscle tissue, scientists have detected molecular ...

A woolly mammoth that was frozen in the Siberian permafrost for nearly 40,000 years has yielded the world’s oldest RNA. The specimen, found in 2010 and nicknamed Yuka, is regarded as the ...

Researchers from Stockholm University have—for the first time ever—managed to successfully isolate and sequence RNA molecules from Ice Age woolly mammoths. These RNA sequences are the oldest ever ...

Some 39,000 years ago, a woolly mammoth died in present-day Siberia, destined to be blanketed by ice and permafrost that would end up preserving its body — even down to the hair and muscle. Now, that ...