Students get hands-on lessons in geography, history, geology, and other subjects through the efforts of Mammoth Cave National Park and the Environmental Education Department. Kentucky Edition is ...

Fossils of an ancient shark species have been discovered in a Kentucky cave, officials announced during Shark Week. The Discovery Channel isn’t the only one educating shark lovers this week. Mammoth ...

National parks. It seems post-COVID, we can't get enough of the outdoors and the natural beauty of America. Kentucky boasts one national park (Mammoth Cave) and two national historical parks (Abraham ...

About 340 million years ago, a tiny shark swam in the waters of the world’s longest cave system in Kentucky, its unusual mouth curved in a way that will ultimately end up defining its future legacy.

A focused search for ancient Mississippian Subperiod marine vertebrates during a paleontological resource inventory of Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky, has yielded a wealth of new fossil data, ...

The entrance to the cave looks sterilized — a stainless steel door that wouldn’t seem out of place in a hospital looks wholly foreign out here in Mammoth Cave National Park. Yet our cave guide that ...

Experts say it had a distinct curved row of teeth, used to crush small sea creatures. The fossils found are estimated to be 355 million years old, back when Mammoth Cave was nothing but warm shallow ...