The bats are common throughout Africa, but this cave was special—shaped like an arch with light shining in at both ends. The rock ceiling was low, which meant the bats would be close and the ...

The whole ceiling was covered with popcorn ... Sandstone doesn’t form cave popcorn, but the rock forms a “silica skin” that can be dated. Smith, working with colleagues at several ...

People who have visited the cave say it is cut into the shale face of the hill and has soot on its ceiling that appears ... classified by archaeologists as a rock shelter rather than a cave.

Sprinkle], who noticed that some stalactites (the ones that come down from the ceiling of the cave) would make a nice ... a percussion instrument that uses rock as the resonator.

The leech’s specialized diet of bat blood has allowed it to survive in cave environments where bats roost and hibernate, according to the study. Many land leeches are opportunis ...