The Kentucky Cave Wars refers to a period when Western Kentucky farmers were drawing on Mammoth Cave's internationally known reputation as the longest cave in the world as a means to make money.

Carved out of mammoth ivory, the 40,000-year-old figurine ... of Tübingen team found the sculpture at the bottom of a vaulted cave in southwestern Germany in the fall of 2008.

The surface of Mammoth Cave National Park encompasses about 80 square miles. No one knows how big the underside is. More than 365 miles of the five-level cave system have been mapped, and new ...