Those who venture into Foul Air Cave, below Buchan township in eastern Victoria, quickly realise how it got its ominous name.

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"There were fossils everywhere, just everywhere, in a way that I haven't seen in any other cave," said John Moretti, a University of Texas at Austin paleontologist who led the research. "It was just ...

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Researchers have discovered multiple rare and new species in previously unexplored caves in Cambodia, including a flying snake and a florescent-turquoise pit viper. Those creatures were found during a ...

John Moretti and John Young rappelled through a two-and-a-half-foot sinkhole and thirty feet down the shaft of Bender’s Cave, landing in a cramped horizontal crawl space full of soil, dead leaves, and ...