It’s among more than a dozen other dated cave paintings on Sulawesi that now ... thought to be around 30,000 to 32,000 years old, and mammoth-ivory figurines found in Germany correspond to ...

The umbrella leaks at places called sinkholes, from which surface water makes its way underground, eroding the limestone into a honeycomb of caverns. Mammoth, the world's longest known cave system ...

“This is just a natural process,” said Mammoth Cave public information officer, Molly Schroer. “This is a karst area, so the water in this part of Kentucky really funnels underground very ...

MAMMOTH CAVE NATIONAL PARK, Ky. – As historic storms drenched parts of Kentucky over the weekend, Mammoth Cave National Park saw floodwaters rise throughout the park. Photos shot throughout the ...

Instead, beyond the rock overhang, it's pouring, waves of water relentlessly slapping ... is studying the region's cave paintings—hand stencils that record generations of inhabitants.

Prehistoric humans painted images of the animals on cave walls and carved their likeness in fragments of mammoth tusk ... and bears—perhaps the oldest paintings in the world.

This rise in water level also ... that the visitor center and cave tours remain open. They added that park crews are continuing clean-up efforts in impacted areas. Mammoth Cave National Park ...