We lay 1,200 feet, more or less, beneath the desert, down countless rope pitches and miles of tortuous passage from the single entrance to Lechuguilla Cave in New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns ...

The Arctic Pack in Planet Zoo features iconic Arctic mammals and ... This pack features eight species, with highlights including the Sun Bear and Clouded Leopard, as well as the Malaysian Tapir ...

The arrival of human ancestors in Europe some 40,000 years ago coincided with the downfall of the cave bear, scientists have revealed. New evidence suggests humans hunted the bear and drove it ...

With less than a month to go until park management sim Planet ... zoo builders to exhibit when it arrives on 15th October. There's the Pallas cat, the Hamadryas baboon, the Markhor, Spectacled ...

At dusk, a swarm of bats disperses to hunt in the rainforest surrounding Deer Cave. One of the planet’s largest underground passages, it holds more than two million bats. This story appears in ...

The Chester Zoo in England reports that the fen raft spiders "just had the biggest mating season on record" after they almost became extinct Alamy The Chester Zoo is looking back on a monumental ...

This story appears in the February 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. She is lying in a cave, dying. Legs and arms but knobby sticks, Lidia Maiyu is curled up close to the campfire.

Wanna see a trick? Give us any topic and we can tie it back to the economy. At Planet Money, we explore the forces that shape our lives and bring you along for the ride. Don't just understand the ...

The Thai cave complex where 12 boys and their football coach became trapped is a snaking system of caverns and crevices which posed a range of problems for rescuers. Some stretches of the Tham ...

Female polar bear Nuka ... cordoned off for zoo visitors, and the windows of the enclosure were whitewashed to provide privacy. "This means that Nuka, who lies in a half-cave that is open at ...

14,700 years ago, in a cave in Somerset, our ancestors were eating other people. Museum research reveals these Ice Age Britons weren't eating human flesh out of necessity but as part of a ritual. 'The ...