This is the 11th prehistoric skeleton found in Mexico’s cenotes — and researchers say the caves may hold many more.

On Sunday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: Hidden beneath Earth’s surface are caverns and pathways that hold the secrets of our planet’s very beginnings. Even after decades of exploration, there are ...

Cave diving combines the thrill of scuba diving and with the excitement of exploring a cave; it’s a challenging activity even for experienced explorers. At these four sites — some of the most popular ...

The cenotes of Mexico are famous not only for their beauty, but for the archaeological finds they reveal.

Two men drowned while on a diving expedition in a mazelike Florida cave system that extends deep below the surface, authorities said Thursday. The Hernando County Sheriff's Office said three teenagers ...

Diver and photographer Jill Heinerth has explored unmapped, underwater caves deep in the earth, as well as the submerged crevices of an iceberg. She has seen hidden creatures and life forms that have ...

Jill Heinerth was wriggling through a narrow crack in the underwater cave when claustrophobia caught hold of her dive partner. The January 2011 dive was her first with Ruth, a twentysomething marine ...

The body of a cave diver trapped since Sunday afternoon was recovered Monday in Manatee Springs State Park, the Levy County Sheriff’s Office reported. Zhou Min, 28, from Foshan City, China was scuba ...

Police said "there are no safety concerns regarding the incident" Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024, and was previously an ...

Jill Heinerth's Into the Planet starts with the world-renowned cave diver almost dying while being one of the first humans to search for caves inside the B-15 iceberg, the largest moving object on ...

Guest Column: Teaching Viggo Mortensen 40 Years of Thai Cave Diving for ‘Thirteen Lives’ Cave diver Richard Stanton helped save 12 boys and their soccer coach from a dire fate in 2018. Serving as a ...