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The whole ecosystem inside a cave feeds off guano, dead bats, or any dead animals on the ground. It’s not for the faint-hearted It can be daunting entering a cave. It is an underground world that ...

It can be daunting entering a cave. It is an underground world that possibly hasn’t been explored before. The first smell that hits you is guano (or bat poo). Some of these caves host millions of bats ...

Ancient bacteria, trapped in caves for millions of years, live in a miniature world of terror. Their only food source is each other. The survival tactics they develop ...

The hand stencil was made on the walls of a cave by Homo sapiens more than 67,000 years ago. Only a faint outline is now visible with the naked ewye. Credit: Griffith University Sixty-eight thousand ...

Discovered in an Indonesian cave, hand stencils with fingertips that taper to points are now though to be the oldest rock art in the world. While it is unclear whether they were made by Homo sapiens ...

The world’s oldest known example of cave art, dating back at least 67,800 years, has been discovered by researchers studying handprints in Indonesia. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...

When we think of the world’s oldest art, Europe usually comes to mind, with famous cave paintings in France and Spain often seen as evidence this was the birthplace of symbolic human culture. But new ...

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A faint hand stencil hidden on a cave wall in Indonesia has been dated to at least 67,800 years old—potentially making it the oldest known cave art yet studied. The discovery comes from a limestone ...