On a brisk winter day in Chicago last month, mammoths seemed to return for a fleeting afternoon. The ancient leviathans lumbered along the lakefront, the city skyline behind them. But visible through ...

For “Mammoth,” a new show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, he takes up contentious issues of race and climate change in beads, sequins and Lite-Brite colors. The artist Nick Cave at his ...

Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky is home to the world’s longest cave system, with over 426 miles of mapped underground passages. While here, visitors can hike the Cedar Sink Trail and explore an ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago. The tan-colored prints analyzed ...

Maxime Aubert receives funding from the Australian Research Council, Google Arts & Culture and The National Geographic Society. Adam Brumm receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Adhi ...

In an Indonesian cave system known for its prehistoric art, the oldest cave art yet found was hiding in plain sight. In a cave full of paintings that were well studied over the years, a faint hand ...

Despite President Donald Trump’s past efforts to shut it down, Republicans passed a spending package that includes $643 million for the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), choosing legislative unity ...

House Republican leaders urged unity in their shutdown fight against Democrats on a call with GOP members Saturday morning, with members on the call backing up Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) move to ...

BAT CAVE, North Carolina (WLOS) -- Despite the massive progress that has been made in recovery efforts since Hurricane Helene hit over ten months ago, some mountain communities still have a long road ...