Nearby, a red-rumped agouti — a South American rodent that looks like a large, long-legged guinea pig — scuttled behind a tree trunk. A few feet away, an Arabian sand cat put its paw inside a log to ...

Create your own adventure, winding through otherworldly rock formations and hunting fossils in this remote wilderness area.

The Mexican free-tailed bat maternity colony under the I-80 Yolo Causeway is growing daily as they return from wherever they ...

Embark on a journey to explore the world's most breathtaking caves, from the shimmering glowworm caves of New Zealand to the colossal Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. Discover subterranean rivers ...

CHIMNEY ROCK & BAT CAVE, North Carolina (WLOS) — Thanks to work by the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT), a new stretch of Highway 9 from Bat Cave to Chimney Rock is a thrill ...

I visited all the major US national parks and ranked them based on factors like beauty and crowd size. My favorites include Grand Teton and Acadia.

From Acadia to Zion, the U.S. has some pretty majestic national parks. Here’s one fun fact about every single one—plus a map so you can see where they all are.

Bracken Cave has also become a maternity colony for the bats. Every year millions migrate here just to give birth. The bats have used this cave so long, Hutchins said the guano is more than 100' deep.

How a discarded bag of Cheetos is threatening a cave’s delicate ecosystem, home to bats and insects Staff at Caverns National Park in New Mexico scorned the unknown visitor and warned how the ...

Near Ruidoso, New Mexico lies a 19th century military fort, now a state historic site, surrounded by public land and thick, untouched grasses only lightly grazed by cavalry horses. But what’s ...

A boulder blocking a Mexican cave was moved. Hidden inside were human skeletons and the remains of sharks and blood-sucking bats.

Oil and gas drilling could be blocked from a sensitive cave system in Lincoln National Forest, near the Permian Basin oilfields of southeast New Mexico.