Students get hands-on lessons in geography, history, geology, and other subjects through the efforts of Mammoth Cave National Park and the Environmental Education Department. Kentucky Edition is ...

Beneath the surface of an otherwise unassuming National Park, a labyrinth showcases hundreds of millions of years of geologic history. Each shade of tan layered on the walls represents a different era ...

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Cave explorer Floyd Collins got trapped in Sand Cave in Kentucky 100 years ago and later died. The incident drew national attention and helped lead to the creation of Mammoth Cave National Park.

Experts say it had a distinct curved row of teeth, used to crush small sea creatures. The fossils found are estimated to be 355 million years old, back when Mammoth Cave was nothing but warm shallow ...

Mammoth Cave, the world's longest known cave system, stretches 426 miles under Kentucky. The cave's limestone began forming 330 million years ago when the region was submerged under an ocean. Visitors ...