Mexican officials recently announced that the 2,700-year-old Olmec Cave Mask, also called a "portal to the underworld", will be returned to the ancient cave that it was stolen from.

Ancient cat fossils, paw prints recovered from beneath Texas Hill Country by: Eric Henrikson Posted: Jan 13, 2023 / 08:44 AM CST Updated: Jan 13, 2023 / 03:06 PM CST ...

A survey expedition in 2021 found fossilized wildcat bones embedded in a cave formation, cavern officials said. A biological survey in March 2022 spotted an “unusual set of cat tracks” near ...

Ancient cat bones pulled from the depths likely to give glimpse of Hill Country history By Elena Bruess, Staff writer Updated Feb 14, 2023 3:47 p.m.

Why the cat was in the cave is a mystery. Aged between 275,000 and 300,000 years ago, it would have existed at the same time as ancient humans, whose remains also turned up in the Hualongdong Cave.

The mural, composed of cross-hatching lines carved into a cave wall, spans about 26 feet, according to a March 17 news release from the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution.