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New Zealand-based astrophotographer Tom Rae rappelled about 100 meters into a glow‑worm–lit cave to capture a long‑exposure, star‑tracked night‑sky panorama that won first place in the Capture the Dark 2026 contest's Creatures of the Night category; the shot was filmed, and Rae spoke of challenging humidity and cave lighting.
In The Devil’s Mouth, five vacationers in coastal Thailand are hunted through a claustrophobic cave system by a bull shark, turning a familiar survival thriller into a tense, character-driven chase highlighted by toxic friendship dynamics between Sarah and her best friend Max; the underwater set-pieces are effective and the performances by Kathryn Newton and Lana Condor lift the material, though the shark’s menace feels less distinctive and the gore remains restrained, a watchable Prime Video release directed by Jeff Wadlow with a script by Aja Gabel and Myung Joh Wesner.
Archaeologists near Fureidis, northern Israel, uncovered a cave with Acheulo-Yabrudian tools and animal bones dating to about 400,000 years ago, suggesting large groups of hominins hunted and used fire there and indicating a complex, rich camp life that predates Neanderthals and modern humans. The site is of global importance, and researchers plan extensive, multi-year studies, though no human remains have yet been found.
Archaeologists in northern Israel uncovered a cave near Fureidis dating back about 400,000 years, inhabited by Acheulo-Yabrudian-era hominins. The site yielded hand axes, scrapers and blades along with animal bones, suggesting large groups, use of fire, and complex camp life. Researchers say the find pushes back the timeline for cave use in the Levant and could transform understanding of early human lifeways, though no human remains have been recovered yet.
Five men trapped for 11 days in a flooded cave in central Laos crawled about 850 feet through waterlogged passageways to the cave mouth after the floodwaters receded, an unaided escape that shocked rescuers. Their escape was aided by a multinational team that pumped water, cleared routes, and used diving gear for safe passages; the survivors slept huddled together, clung to hope of reuniting with loved ones, and credited fear as the source of their courage. Two other men remain missing as rescuers reassess conditions and plan deeper searches.
Four of seven men who entered a flooded cave in Laos to search for gold were freed after about 10 days, a day after another man was rescued; two others remain missing as rescuers describe the cave as extremely narrow and dangerous, with cheers captured as the men emerged.
Seven villagers are stranded inside a flooded cave in central Laos after entering to search for gold; rescuers, including Thai divers who helped in the 2018 Tham Luang operation, are advancing through a 340-meter tunnel, contending with rising water, narrow passages, and ongoing rain while pumping out floodwater and seeking a possible air shaft as a lead on their location.
Five of seven villagers trapped in a flooded cave in Laos for about a week have been found alive by specialist divers; rescuers navigated a 340-meter tunnel to reach them and continue searching for the two missing. The group had entered the cave seeking gold when heavy rains caused flash flooding, and they are on an elevated ledge with airflow that could aid extraction, which is expected to be challenging. More than 100 people, including 15 divers and experts who helped with the 2018 Thailand cave rescue, are involved in the operation.
New images released by DAN Europe show the dark, sediment-filled conditions inside a Maldives cave where five Italian divers died during a deep-sea exploration; investigators have seized the divers' computers and phones as part of the inquiry, and the bodies are due to be returned to Italy.
A local hunter-explorer Hồ Khanh first found the entrance to Sơn Đoòng in Vietnam’s Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park in 1990 but didn’t enter and lost it for 17 years. After a chance meeting with an international caving team, the cave was rediscovered and, in 2009, confirmed as the largest cave on Earth by volume (about 38.4 million cubic meters), stretching nearly 9 km with sections up to 198 meters wide—large enough to fit a Boeing 747—featuring sunlight shafts and the 70-meter-tall ‘Hope and Vision’ stalagmite, all formed 2–5 million years ago; the surrounding park remains largely unexplored.
Archaeologists in Des-Cubierta Cave, Spain, uncovered at least 35 animal skulls accumulated across multiple episodes, suggesting a long-term, structured practice and potential symbolic or ritual behavior by Neanderthals, challenging views of their cognitive capabilities.
New analysis of Des-Cubierta Cave in Spain shows Neanderthals repeatedly gathered and arranged 35 horned skulls over tens of thousands of years (135,000–43,000 years ago), alongside Mousterian tools, indicating a cultural practice not tied to survival and suggesting symbolic or social traditions transmitted across generations.
Researchers discovered ancient bee nests inside fossilized bones in a Caribbean cave, revealing a previously unknown behavior of nesting in bones and caves, dating back around 20,000 years, which expands understanding of bee ecology and adaptation.
Scientists have discovered an enormous underground cave system inside a giant sinkhole called Hong Kong Haiting Hall in Guangxi, China. The sinkhole, one of the largest ever recorded, measures 100 meters wide, nearly 200 meters long, and 118 meters deep, featuring complex caverns, underground rivers, and geological formations shaped over millions of years by water erosion and collapse. This remarkable discovery provides valuable insights into karst topography and geological processes.