Researchers have uncovered the fossilized remains of two previously unknown species of prehistoric sharks in the deep ...

Explore Mammoth Cave National Park, the longest cave system on Earth, featuring the richest known habitat for cave wildlife in the world. It may be difficult to think of caves as spacious and grand, ...

Both Troglocladodus trimblei and Glikmanius careforum, members of the extinct ctenacanth genus (Ctenacanthus), have been ...

Mammoth Cave National Park in south-central Kentucky, home to the world’s longest cave system, has extended its fame. The National Park Service announced that explorers have mapped out an ...

When scientists crawled into Mammoth Cave —a.k.a. the largest known cave system on the planet— they weren’t expecting company ...

Mammoth Cave may not be one of the seven wonders of the world, but the national park is one of the wonders of the Bluegrass State. It's "the world's longest known cave system, with more than 400 ...

Caves have a multifaceted allure. While the general public is drawn to them for the otherworldly atmosphere and sense of ...

This collapsed sinkhole, the largest known natural entrance to the Mammoth Cave system, is believed by researchers to be where the cave's extensive labyrinth of naturally formed passages first ...

An explorer of the Mammoth Cave system in Kentucky who died 100 years ago is credited with the creation of the national park. A national park in Kentucky has the longest known cave system in the ...

Teen becomes first queen: South Carolina teen elected first Black homecoming queen in school's 155-year history Mammoth Cave National Park plans to celebrate fossils found in the cave system with ...

Mammoth Cave National Park is trying to lure tourists by quoting testimonials from some of the more than 550,000 visitors who check out the world’s longest cave system in Kentucky each year.

A 1925 Daily News graphic showing how Floyd Collins was trapped in Sand Cave. Mammoth Cave is a natural wonder – the largest known cave system in the world that draws hundreds of thousands of ...