Cave explorer Floyd Collins got trapped in Sand Cave in Kentucky 100 years ago and later died. The incident drew national attention and helped lead to the creation of Mammoth Cave National Park.

A giant hole opened up on a street in Surrey, southwest of London, forcing evacuations and leaving a car teetering on the ...

Some of the most amazing spectacles around the world are hidden deep underground, beneath rocks, sea and even ice.

MAMMOTH CAVE, Ky. — During a late January tour of Mammoth Cave, the guide clapped his hands, and the already dim lights went out. He had brought our group to a stop in a flat area – like a ...

Mammoth Cave is a solution cave, the product of a karst landscape. Karst is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble rock like limestone by weak acidic water. Sinkholes, ridges, springs, ...

Lime occurs very extensively distributed in nature, principally in combination with nitric, carbonic, and sulphuric acids—as in limestone ... instanced in the Mammoth Cave, Kentucky.

The change caused a die-off of marine species, their remains sinking to the seabed and preserved underground in the resulting rock layers. The flowing water that formed Mammoth Cave cut through this ...

The death of Floyd Collins one century ago is being remembered as a catalyst for the formation of Mammoth Cave National Park, ...

Denver, CO - The Toronto Rock (3-5) earned their third straight win after defeating the Colorado Mammoth (5-4) by a score of 9-8 in an overtime thriller on Saturday night at Ball Arena in Denver ...

In addition, mammoth bones and tusks found in the cave were turned into different tools, art objects, furniture, and burial items, which proves that mammoths played a vital role in early human life.