Mammoth Cave National Park, home to the world’s longest known cave system, stretches for more than 680 kilometres, and counting, into the Earth. What began as a limestone labyrinth has turned out to ...

Today on our Black History Month tour in this 100th Anniversary Month, we’re going to visit Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. It is one of the longest cave systems in the world that has been ...

Experts say it had a distinct curved row of teeth, used to crush small sea creatures. The fossils found are estimated to be 355 million years old, back when Mammoth Cave was nothing but warm shallow ...

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Mammoth Cave National Park is considering a rule change that would allow bicycles to be used on more trails in the area, ...

CAVE CITY, Ky. — As the government shutdown appeared imminent at the end of the September, businesses and tourism agencies that surround Mammoth Cave braced for impact. Similar to the last prolonged ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1838, a teenage slave from Kentucky was given a rare opportunity. Rather than breaking his back in the fields with his peers, ...

National parks. It seems post-COVID, we can't get enough of the outdoors and the natural beauty of America. Kentucky boasts one national park (Mammoth Cave) and two national historical parks (Abraham ...

It's Shark Week, and Mammoth Cave took the unofficial holiday to announce the discovery of another new shark species. Mammoth Cave announced the discovery of the "Macadens olsoni" Thursday. The fossil ...

For “Mammoth,” a new show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, he takes up contentious issues of race and climate change ...

MAMMOTH CAVE, Ky. — A new-to-science species of ancient shark was recently discovered in Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. The Macadens olsoni is known for its unique tooth whorl, a curved row ...