Trudging through the dark with a dim lantern, a remarkable black man named Stephen Bishop tirelessly explored the world's ...

The entrance to the cave looks sterilized — a stainless steel door that wouldn’t seem out of place in a hospital looks wholly foreign out here in Mammoth Cave National Park. Yet our cave guide that ...

Two hundred feet below ground level at Mammoth Cave National Park, Park Ranger Jerry Bransford shines his flashlight on the cave's wall and illuminates an inscription: "Mat 1850." "Mat" was Jerry's ...

The longest cave in the world is now even longer, according to the Cave Research Foundation.Mammoth Cave National Park, located in South Central Kentucky, announced on its Facebook page that it has ...

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 ...

EDMONSON COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) — According to the Cave Research Foundation, the longest cave system is even longer. The foundation has discovered eight more miles of passage within Mammoth Cave ...

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 ...

U.S. researchers discovered a new shark species in rock layers at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, the National Park Service reported. On October 11, which is National Fossil Day, scientists ...

A new species of shark was discovered in Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park.The ancient shark is called a "Macadens Olsoni."Experts say it had a distinct curved row of teeth, used to crush small ...

MAMMOTH CAVE, Ky. (WBKO/Gray News) - A national park in Kentucky seems to be taking recent criticism in stride. Mammoth Cave National Park found itself ranked among the “most disappointing” U.S.