MEXICO CITY – A pair of cave divers said Monday they have found subterranean passages in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula that constitute the world's longest underwater cave system. British cave diver Steve ...

Beneath the Yucatan Peninsula are a series of flooded caves that are revealing secrets about human presence in the area from ...

The eastern Yucatán Peninsula study region is pierced by vast interconnected flooded tunnels, that function as underground rivers. The groundwater is the only source of potable water for the whole ...

Ancient Americans ventured deep into caves along a stretch of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula to mine a red pigment that could have had both practical and ritual uses, researchers say. Discoveries of ...

Underwater caves have been described as one of Earth’s final unexplored frontiers. An international team recently delved into the flooded caves of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico and found methane and ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Activists in Mexico have published photos of steel and cement pilings from a government project that were driven directly through the roofs of sensitive limestone caves on the ...

Anthropology doctoral student Donald Slater has been awarded a $3,000 Mellon Dissertation Research grant and a $2,000 Sachar award for research abroad to develop his dissertation "At the Heart of the ...

In the underground rivers and flooded caves of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, where Mayan lore described a fantastical underworld, scientists have found a cryptic world in its own right. In the ...

With help from an experienced underwater cave-diving team, researchers have constructed the most complete map to date of the microbial communities living in the submerged labyrinths beneath Mexico's ...

MEXICO CITYMEXICO CITY — Activists in Mexico have published photos of steel and cement pilings from a government project that were driven directly through the roofs of sensitive limestone caves on the ...