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 ...

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.

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 ...

A prehistoric skeleton has been found in an intricate underwater cave system along Mexico’s Caribbean coast, an area that flooded at the end of the last ice age 8,000 years ago, according to a ...

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 ...

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!" ...

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 ...

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

The eastern Yucatán Peninsula study region is pierced by vast interconnected flooded tunnels, that function as underground rivers. The groundwater is the only source of potable water for the whole ...