Tagged: cave

What Is Cave Popcorn?

There aren’t a lot of geology terms that can make your stomach growl. “Cave popcorn” is the rare exception. It sounds like it could be a trailside snack food — a treat for Cub Scouts on weekend camping trips. But it’s actually a rocky deposit...

Chauvet, the dream unlocked: A look inside mystery cave art

Sealed off by a landslide, roughly 20,000 years ago, the cave lay entombed, preserved and waiting. Waiting for that moment when someone would stumble across an entrance to the wonders that lay within. Then, on December the 18th 1994, a group of men did exactly...