MAMMOTH CAVE, KY.- Women’s contributions to exploration and preservation have left a lasting legacy, particularly at Mammoth Cave National Park. Today, female park rangers are a common presence, but ...

As the Herald-Leader previously reported, the two agencies responsible for staffing Mammoth Cave and the Daniel Boone National Forest, which includes Red River Gorge and Cave Run Lake, either ...

While some bat species have seen up to a 99% population decline, Rafinesque's big-eared bat has shown a strong resistance to ...

Explore Mammoth Cave National Park, the longest cave system on Earth, featuring the richest known habitat for cave wildlife in the world. It may be difficult to think of caves as spacious and grand, ...

A popular South Central Kentucky destination is closed indefinitely. The Edmonson County Tourism Commission says Nolin Lake ...

Paleontologists at Mammoth Cave National Park have unearthed an ancient shark species previously unknown to science.

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 ...

Researchers have discovered a new-to-science species of ancient shark during an ongoing paleontological resource inventory at ...

[email protected]. The fossilized remains of a newly discovered ancient shark species found in the depths of Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park reveal not the sharp, pointy ...

Kentucky employees who were fired from Camp Nelson, Mammoth Cave and other U.S. National Parks locations were rehired beginning Monday. “In compliance with court orders, the Department of the Interior ...