With help from an experienced underwater cave-diving team, researchers have constructed the most complete map to date of the microbial communities living in the submerged labyrinths beneath Mexico's ...

The world's longest underwater cave system dwells under Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Known as the Ox Bel Ha, Mayan for "Three Paths of Water", it consists of grand chambers and twisting tunnels, ...

The ancient pot was discovered by members of the Urban Cenotes organization, which preserves caves around the Yucatán Peninsula. Photo by the National Institute of Anthropology and History ...

IN A flooded cave system in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, on the Yucatán peninsula, a manatee mother (pictured above) swims up to cave diver Klaus Thymann, who captured stunning images of these ...

The eastern Yucatán Peninsula study region is pierced by vast interconnected flooded tunnels, that function as underground rivers. The groundwater is the only source of potable water for the whole ...

Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered ancient Mayan pottery in a cave system a little more than 10 miles away from downtown Playa de Carmen. Members of Mexico’s Cenotes Urbanos organization found a ...