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Posted May 9, 2013:

• Geologists Study Mystery of 'Eternal Flames'

Posted May 1, 2013:

• Killer Entrance Suspected in Mystery of Unusually Large Group of Carnivores in Ancient Cave

Posted April 30, 2013:

• The Underground Adventures of the Mediterranean Frog Rana Iberica

Posted April 24, 2013:

• Ice Tubes in Polar Seas -- 'Brinicles' or 'Sea Stalactites' -- Provide Clues to Origin of Life

Posted March 13, 2013:

• Bat Disease: More Accurate, Sensitive DNA Test Allows Early Identification of Fungus Causing White Nose Syndrome

Posted February 21, 2013:

• Caves Point to Thawing of Siberia: Thaw in Siberia's Permafrost May Accelerate Global Warming

Posted December 18, 2012:

• Bad News for Bats: Deadly Fungus Persists in Caves

Posted December 7, 2012:

• From Clawed Spiders to Deep-Sea Sharks: 137 New Species Described by California Academy of Sciences in 2012

Posted November 27, 2012:

• Three New Arthropod Species Have Been Found in the Maestrazgo Caves in Teruel

Posted November 12, 2012:

• Surveying Earth's Interior With Atomic Clocks

Posted October 11, 2012:

• New Cave-Dwelling Reef Coral Discovered in the Indo-Pacific

Posted September 28, 2012:

• Fall Calls Bats to Hibernate, Scientists to Study Them

Posted September 27, 2012:

• Sandia Experts Help When Sinkhole Opens Up in Louisiana

Posted September 17, 2012:

• Shrinking Snow Depth on Arctic Sea Ice Threatens Ringed Seal Habitat

Posted September 3, 2012:

• Israeli Cave Explorers Return from Record-Breaking Expedition in Abkhazia of ‘Everest of the Caves’

Posted August 29, 2012:

• Eyeless Australian Fish Have Closest Relatives in Madagascar

Posted August 17, 2012:

• Spider Version of Bigfoot Emerges from Caves in the Pacific Northwest

Posted August 9, 2012:

• The Difference Between a Mole and Shrew Is in Their SOX
• And Then There Was Light! Discovery of the World's First Eyeless Huntsman Spider

Posted July 3, 2012:

• Social Bats Pay a Price With New Fungal Disease: Study Determines Which Bats Are Headed for Extinction

Posted June 29, 2012:

• Welsh Reindeer Is Britain's Oldest Rock Art, U-Series Dating Suggests

Posted May 29, 2012:

• Chemical Fingerprinting Tracks the Travels of Little Brown Bats

Posted May 3, 2012:

• Stalagmite Research Suggests Earth Has Two Modes of Responding to Change

Posted April 12, 2012:

• Endangered Bats Find Sanctuary in Israeli 'Ghost Bunkers'

Posted April 11, 2012:

• Key to New Antibiotics Could Be Deep Within Isolated Cave

Posted February 22, 2012:

• Deepest Terrestrial Arthropod Ever Found

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

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