EIGHT additional miles of Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave have been uncovered

EIGHT additional miles of Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave are uncovered that extends the 10-million-year-old structure to at least 420 miles long Explorers have uncovered eight additional miles of passageways inside Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave The discovery brings the system to at least 420 miles long and officials say there could be more to find  The 10-million-year-old cave was … Read more

Oldest known cave art on Earth threatened by climate change, scientists report 

Climate change isn’t just threatening our future: It’s causing some of the oldest known artwork to decay at an exponential rate. Cave paintings in Indonesia that date to 44,000 years ago are being threatened by increased salt crystals forming due to rising temperatures and longer dry spells, according to new research. The crystals weaken the … Read more

Fifteen volunteers emerge from isolation study in French cave after spending 40 days underground

A group of 15 people taking part in an experiment where they cut themselves off from the world have re-emerged from a cave in France after 40 days. Leaving their cave dwelling on Saturday, the group from a scientific experiment to say that time seemed to pass more slowly in their cavernous underground abode, where … Read more

Prehistoric cave painters may have been hallucinating through lack of oxygen, study claims

They’re evocative images of animals which were painted on to the walls of deep caves thousands of years ago by prehistoric men and women. Now, a new study speculates that the artists who produced numerous underground works across Europe may have been hallucinating because of a lack of oxygen. Among the paintings mentioned by Israeli … Read more

RAF Typhoon pilots smash Isis mountain cave network in Iraq

RAF Typhoon pilots smash Isis mountain cave network in Iraq with deadly fusillade of Storm Shadow cruise missiles RAF Typhoon pilots used the Storm Shadow cruise missile for the first time  Previously the high-tech weapon system was used by the Tornado GR4 fleet  ISIS in Iraq and Syria were also blasted by Hellfire and Paveway … Read more

Katie Price warns beau Carl Woods the floor could CAVE in as they revisit her £2m mucky mansion

She’s currently looking to buy a house with her beau Carl Woods. And Katie Price, 42, was seen visiting her £2m mucky mansion in Sussex and even thinking about moving back into the house in a YouTube video posted on Monday. However, while on a tour of the run-down abode, the former glamour model had … Read more

A German cave may be where dogs were first domesticated, study claims

Dogs are known to have evolved from wolves, yet until now, determining exactly when and where this occurred has proved difficult for scientists.  Several examples of ancient canines have previously been found, dating back thousands of years. Some resemble wolves, some look like dogs, and some sit awkwardly between the two groups.   Now, a new … Read more

DNA from cave bear dates back 360,000 years and is oldest extracted from animal not in permafrost

Scientists have successfully identified, extracted and analysed the oldest ever DNA from an animal which was not frozen and preserved in permafrost.  The 360,000-year-old genetic material came from the bone of a cave bear, the larger and vegetarian relative of polar and brown bears, which died in what is now Georgia during the Middle Pleistocene. … Read more

Harry Potter’s Jessie Cave sparks claims she’s flouted Covid rules while filming podcast

Jessie Cave and her sister Bebe have sparked claims they flouted Covid rules while filming their podcast We Can’t Talk About That Right Now. While chatting on their latest YouTube video, the women were joined by both of their partners after Bebe had said her comedian boyfriend ‘lives in a house of four boys’.  Some fans … Read more

Archaeology: Ancient Chinese noblemen used cosmetics made from animal fat and cave ‘milk’ 

Chinese noblemen were using cosmetics made from animal fat and cave ‘milk’ on their faces some 2,700 years ago, a study has reported. Experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences excavated a nobleman’s tomb — filled with assorted grave goods — at the Liujiawa site in northern China. During the so-called ‘Spring and Autumn’ period (771–476 … Read more