Sixty feet beneath the jungle floor in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, inside a limestone cave filled with water, Tom Stotmeyer was at an impasse. How was he going to get his stout frame through a ...

An 8,000-year-old skeleton discovered deep within a flooded cave system on Mexico's Caribbean coast is shedding new light on the prehistoric inhabitants of the Yucatán Peninsula. The remains, found by ...

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 ...

Archaeologists and cave‑diving specialists have uncovered a prehistoric human skeleton deep within a flooded cave system along Mexico’s Caribbean coast, near ...

Researchers said the find adds another piece to the emerging picture of early inhabitants of the Yucatán Peninsula when the landscape was a dry plain with cliffs rather than today’s jungle.

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 ...

If the marine world is the least explored region of our planet, then underwater caves represent Earth’s final frontier—which begins to explain why I’m standing in the middle of a Mexican jungle gazing ...

Ron Fraga invariably received a hero's welcome when he visited the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. When the Mayan people saw him coming, they would throw open their arms and exclaim with glee, "Fraga!" ...

Archaeologists discovered 8,000-year-old human remains in an underwater cenote cave in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.

If one thing’s clear from Jill Heinerth’s breathtaking new memoir on her life as a professional cave diver, it’s that this unusual career path requires serious mettle. Self portrait under the tannic ...