LOVELL — Falling 100 feet down into a dark cave is (almost) never a good thing. It is easy to imagine: a mountain lion sprinting after an antelope at 45 mph, both animals cresting a low rise. The ...

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was like during the Pleistocene A shaft of golden light from the cave’s mouth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Laura Zuckerman (Reuters) - Scientists excavating an ancient Wyoming sinkhole containing a rare trove of fossils of Ice Age ...

Natural Trap Cave is a pit in northern Wyoming into which countless animals have fallen and met their untimely demise since the Pleistocene. Paleontologists today find the cave a treasure trove — a ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Paleontologists digging at the bottom of a strange cave in northern Wyoming say they have uncovered a trove of animal bones from the last ice age this summer and have enough ...

Julie Meachen, an expert in Ice Age megafauna, skirts a dirt ledge called “the Saddle” deep inside a remarkable hollow in northern Wyoming known as Natural Trap Cave. She stops to observe Megan ...

Scientists excavating an ancient Wyoming sinkhole containing a rare trove of fossils of Ice Age mammals have unearthed hundreds of bones of such prehistoric animals as American cheetahs, a ...