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Posted January 26, 2012:

• Life Beyond Earth? Underwater Caves in Bahamas Could Give Clues

Posted January 22, 2012:

• Advantages of Living in the Dark: Multiple Evolution Events of 'Blind' Cavefish

Posted January 17, 2012:

• Evidence of Past Southern Hemisphere Rainfall Cycles Related to Antarctic Temperatures

Posted December 15, 2011:

• Scientists Find Microbes in Lava Tube Living in Conditions Like Those on Mars

Posted November 28, 2011:

• How Bats 'Hear' Objects in Their Path

Posted October 26, 2011:

• Controversy Over Reopening the 'Sistine Chapel' of Stone Age Art

Posted October 17, 2011:

• Genetic Study of Cave Millipedes Reveals Isolated Populations and Ancient Divergence Between Species

Posted September 12, 2011:

• Health Fears Over CO₂ Storage Are Unfounded, Study Shows

Posted July 13, 2011:

• Separated for 20 Million Years: Blind Beetle from Bulgarian Caves Clarifies Questions

Posted May 10, 2011:

• Darkness Stifles Reproduction of Surface-Dwelling Fish

Posted May 2, 2011:

• Caves and Their Dripstones Reveal the Uplift of Mountains

Posted April 11, 2011:

• Tourism Does Not Harm All Caves, Study Suggests

Posted March 3, 2011:

• Food Forensics: DNA Links Habitat Quality to Bat Diet

Posted February 18, 2011:

• Storm-Chasing Weather Radar Used to Track Bat Populations

Posted February 14, 2011:

• Culling Can't Control Deadly Bat Disease, Mathematical Model Shows

Posted February 11, 2011:

• Quest for Extinct Giant Rats Leads Scientists to Ancient Face Carvings

Posted February 3, 2011:

• Death in the Bat Caves: Disease Wiping out Hibernating Bats

Posted October 27, 2010:

• The 'Rodney Dangerfield' of Halloween Icons

Posted September 14, 2010:

• Adapting to Darkness: How Behavioral and Genetic Changes Helped Cavefish Survive Extreme Environment

Posted August 24, 2010:

• True Causes for Extinction of Cave Bear Revealed: More Human Expansion Than Climate Change

Posted August 5, 2010:

• Bats Facing Regional Extinction in Northeastern US from Rapidly Spreading White-Nose Syndrome

Posted July 22, 2010:

• Extreme Archaeology: Divers Plumb the Mysteries of Sacred Maya Pools

Posted July 15, 2010:

• Remarkable Fossil Cave Shows How Ancient Marsupials Grew

Posted June 16, 2010:

• Geochemist Raises Questions About Carbon Sequestration

Posted April 15, 2010:

• Stalagmite Reveals Carbon Footprint of Early Native Americans

Posted April 7, 2010:

• Deadly Fungus Threatens 9 Bat Species in Ga., Ky., N.C., S.C. and Tenn., Expert Says

Posted March 29, 2010:

• Bat Navigation: After the Next Sunset, Please Turn Right

Posted March 12, 2010:

• Phylogenetic Analysis of Mexican Cave Scorpions Suggests Adaptation to Caves Is Reversible

Posted January 20, 2010:

• Cave Reveals Southwest's Abrupt Climate Swings During Ice Age

Posted December 30, 2009:

• Window Opens Into Moon's Past Volcanism

Posted November 18, 2009:

• To the Bat Cave: Researchers Reconstruct Evolution of Bat Migration With Aid of Mathematical Model

Posted November 12, 2009:

• Canada: Alberta's Hidden Valleys Offer Both Resources and Danger

Posted November 10, 2009:

• Cave Study Links Climate Change to California Droughts

Posted September 28, 2009:

• Researchers Go Underground To Reveal 850 New Species In Australian Outback

Posted August 24, 2009:

• New Species Of Crustacean Discovered Near Canary Islands

Posted August 3, 2009:

• Is Bat White-Nose Syndrome An Emerging Fungal Pathogen?

Posted August 1, 2009:

• 'Ebola Cousin' Marburg Virus Isolated From African Fruit Bats

Posted June 11, 2009:

• Abrupt Global Warming Could Shift Monsoon Patterns, Hurt Agriculture

Posted June 3, 2009:

• Cantabrian Cornice in Spain Has Experienced Seven Cooling And Warming Phases Over Past 41,000 Years

Posted May 29, 2009:

• Environmental Pollution Increases Risk Of Liver Disease, Study Finds

Posted May 15, 2009:

• Peruvian Stalagmites Hold Clues To Climate Change

Posted May 5, 2009:

• Caves Closed In U.S. To Slow Bat Disease Spread

Posted May 2, 2009:

• Cave Activity Discouraged To Help Protect Bats From Deadly White-Nose Syndrome

Posted March 25, 2009:

• Underground Subatomic-Particle Measurements Yield Meteorological Clues

Posted March 9, 2009:

• Researchers Study Cave’s 'Breathing' For Better Climate Clues

Posted March 5, 2009:

• White-Nose Syndrome Death In Bats: First Prevention Proposed By Ecologists

Posted February 25, 2009:

• Stalagmites Confirm 9,000-Year Lower Brazil Rainfall

Posted February 3, 2009:

• White-Nose Kills Hundreds Of Bats Near Abandoned Mines In Pennsylvania

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