Read more caves stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/18517/caves.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:11:38 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/58072/meet-the-first-european.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMeet the first modern European. His face—or hers, as researchers have been unable to determine the sex—was reconstructed by a forensic artist based on a partial skull and jawbone discovered in a Romanian cave. The facial features linked to the 35,000-year-old bones recall the continent's immediate African...http://www.newser.com/story/58072/meet-the-first-european.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 05 May 2009 3:09:39 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/57732/worlds-largest-cave-found.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA British expedition team has discovered what they believe to be the world’s largest cave deep within the Vietnamese jungle, the Telegraph reports. At 650 feet high and nearly 500 feet wide, Hang Son Doong—or Mountain River Cave—is twice the size of current record holder Deer Cave in...http://www.newser.com/story/57732/worlds-largest-cave-found.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 01 May 2009 5:03:24 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/49816/deadly-bat-plague-spreads.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA mysterious disorder decimating the bat population in upstate New York has spread through the northeast and could be headed across the nation. The disease, called white nose syndrome after the white smudges found on infected bats, has spread to six states in two years, killing hundreds of thousands of...http://www.newser.com/story/49816/deadly-bat-plague-spreads.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 04 Feb 2009 3:58:28 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42163/freed-reporter-held-in-cave-underground.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCanadian officials secured the release yesterday of a reporter who was kept in an underground cave in Afghanistan for a month, CNN reports. Melissa Fung said her abductors bound her hands and feet, but that she was never mistreated. Afghan authorities arrested three people in the case and are looking...http://www.newser.com/story/42163/freed-reporter-held-in-cave-underground.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 09 Nov 2008 8:00:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/27688/final-doomsday-cultists-exit-russian-cave.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe final nine members of a Russian doomsday cult holed up in a cave to await the apocalypse (coming this month) have abandoned ship, unable to stand the stench of two people who had died. Thirty-five followers of a self-declared prophet calling himself Father Pyotr climbed into the cave in...http://www.newser.com/story/27688/final-doomsday-cultists-exit-russian-cave.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 16 May 2008 10:15:04 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/22462/deadly-disease-ravaging-bats.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA mysterious syndrome is wiping out colonies of hibernating bats and baffling biologists, the New York Times reports. Experts don't know what causes the "white nose syndrome" or how it spreads, but they warn that bat populations in the Northeast are being devastated. Field researchers report bats flying out of...http://www.newser.com/story/22462/deadly-disease-ravaging-bats.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 25 Mar 2008 5:57:30 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/13662/mold-threatens-cave-paintings.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThey've existed for thousands of years but it's the lowly fungus that could finally be the death of France's most famous prehistoric cave paintings. Invading gray and black mold is threatening the animal images in the Lascaux cave in southwestern France, and scientists are uncertain what has caused it. The...http://www.newser.com/story/13662/mold-threatens-cave-paintings.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 09 Dec 2007 8:30:00 CST