Mammoth Cave is home to a variety of animals known as troglobites — wildlife species that are specially adapted to live in a cave environment. These residents include eyeless fish, cave salamanders ...

Mammoth Cave has become a popular tourist destination ... picture of human beings rapidly wiping out a great number of animals. But there's an even more ominous scenario: The extinctions don ...

The insect-eating animals play a vital ecological role and their loss is ... especially in the northeast United States.

ExploreEscape time by visiting The Cloister at Sea Island And when it comes to history, Mammoth Cave has nearly four millennia worth on hand. “Over 10,000 years ago Paleo-Indians hunted animals ...

A team of geologists, paleontologists, and mammoth fauna studies specialists, affiliated with several institutions in Russia, ...

Environmental DNA harvested from the ocean, land and air can help scientists monitor wildlife. The challenge is figuring out how to interpret this eDNA.

The animal is believed ... alongside wild horses, cave lions and giant steppe bison. The discovery marks the first near complete and best-preserved mummified woolly mammoth found in North America.

According to the National Park Service, “White-Nose Syndrome (WNS), a disease in bats that is killing these vital animals by the millions, is a potential threat to Mammoth Cave and the bats that live ...

Advanced analysis of prehistoric cave art has revealed new insights into the fishing practices of Paleolithic societies.

Climate change negatively affects Mammoth Cave through the introduction and proliferation of ... and the problems they cause include weakening the health of plants and animals, permanently harming ...

This is where the cave lions are ... began to create—not crude etchings but fully realistic animal figurines carved out of mammoth tusk. The sources of most of these objects are four caves ...