HOMUN, Mexico (AP) — A huge poplar tree stands proud in Maribel Ek's courtyard, adorned with a sign that reads: “Florece desde adentro” ("It blooms from within"). Deep underground, the tree's long ...

Researchers have long considered these cave systems valuable archaeological archives. The latest discovery is part of a ...

Archaeologists have found a prehistoric human skeleton deep inside a flooded cave system on Mexico’s Caribbean coast.

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AKTUN TUYUL CAVE SYSTEM, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s outgoing leader has rapidly built a train system looping around the country’s southern Yucatan Peninsula. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised ...

AKTUN TUYUL CAVE SYSTEM, MexicoAKTUN TUYUL CAVE SYSTEM, Mexico — Mexico’s outgoing leader has rapidly built a train system looping around the country’s southern Yucatan Peninsula. President Andrés ...

HOMUN, Mexico — A huge poplar tree stands proud in Maribel Ek’s courtyard, adorned with a sign that reads: “Florece desde adentro” (“It blooms from within”). Deep underground, the tree’s long roots ...

An 8,000-year-old skeleton discovered deep within a flooded cave system on Mexico's Caribbean coast is shedding new light on the prehistoric inhabitants of the Yucatán Peninsula. The remains, found by ...

“Cenotes” (say-no-tays) are underground caves formed almost 6,500 years ago. A millennium’s worth of geographical transformations created these intricate cave systems, but climate change filled them ...

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The Yucatán peninsula in south-east Mexico is riddled with holes. When a giant asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago near what is now the town of Chicxulub, the impact created a massive ...