which makes these caves a perfect time capsule. This underworld is formed by a massive underground aquifer in the northern Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. It is accessible by cenotes that connect ...

In the depths of the Hoyo Negro pit 180 feet below sea level, a diving team has successfully recovered the skulls, jaw bones, and other remains of two long-extinct Ice Age species.

This spring the group published a report in the journal Science on its findings at a massive underwater cave on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula known as Hoyo Negro, or “black hole.” Beddows’ study of ...

The cave is filled with hundreds of monumental ... For that reason, Sac Actun now absorbs Dos Ojos. The Yucatan peninsula of Mexico is studded with monumental relics of the Maya people, whose ...

During the past couple of decades archaeologists have begun paying close attention to the role of caves, the zenith sun ... encompasses the lower third of Mexico, as well as most of Belize ...

In a flooded cave system in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo on the Yucatán peninsula, a manatee mother swims up to cave diver Klaus Thymann, who captured stunning footage and images of these ...

Each year, more than 1 million people visit Xplor, a subaquatic theme park located a few kilometers south of Playa del Carmen, a popular tourist town on the Caribbean coast of southeast Mexico.

Often lauded as one of the best-kept secrets on the Yucatan Peninsula, Río Secreto (or Secret River) is an underground river and collection of caves. The bright turquoise water contrasts with the ...

A court in Mexico on Monday halted the construction of two controversial train lines that critics said could damage the ...

imperiled cats and monkeys and underwater caves and rivers. “This Maya train construction is already harming the habitat of jaguars, ocelots, Yucatan spider monkeys and many other imperiled animals,” ...