Deep beneath Kentucky’s rolling hills, in the dark reaches of Mammoth Cave National Park, paleontologists have unearthed the ...

Proposed reconstruction of the new to science species Macadens olsoni, discovered through fossil research at Mammoth Cave National Park. Art by Benji Paysnoe. Mammoth Cave National Park’s rich history ...

Scientists have uncovered a previously unknown species of extinct shark deep within the labyrinth of Mammoth Cave in Kentucky ...

(NEW YORK) — A new species of ancient shark has been discovered at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, officials said. Named Macadens olsoni, the fossils were found in the Ste. Genevieve Formation ...

Experts say it had a distinct curved row of teeth, used to crush small sea creatures. The fossils found are estimated to be 355 million years old, back when Mammoth Cave was nothing but warm shallow ...

The air is cool and damp. The light shining from behind is low and tinted, while a park ranger's hand hovers over a button. Then, a switch clicks. Light floods a chasm in the stone, a chamber called ...

Mammoth Cave, the world's longest known cave system, stretches 426 miles under Kentucky. The cave's limestone began forming 330 million years ago when the region was submerged under an ocean. Visitors ...

Scientists have managed to rescue the molecule, against all odds, from a calf that died after being attacked by cave lions ...

The ongoing federal government shutdown shuttered Mammoth Cave National Park's guided cave tours in October, but there is still a way to make a trip out of the popular tourist destination in ...