Explore the stunning cenotes in Mexico, unique natural sinkholes with rich ecosystems and ancient cultural significance.

I just got back from a short trip to Mexico. I was in Tulum, where a famous set of Mayan ruins are located.  I didn’t have ...

The underwater caves of the Yucatán Peninsula are a window to the distant past. Through two million years and over multiple glaciation cycles, these caves have been transformed. When the sea ...

Beddows, 42, has made a similar transformation in her own career. When she first started studying the geology and hydrology of underwater caves, she worked with experienced divers who brought back ...

Below these big chunks of porous limestone lies an intricate network of natural tunnels which were carved out through rainwater which had seeped into cracks that later formed caverns and channels.

One didn’t have to be Maya to feel awe. During the past couple of decades archaeologists have begun paying close attention to the role of caves, the zenith sun, and now—through de Anda ...

The Yucatan peninsula of Mexico is studded with ... A group of divers have discovered Mayan caves over 4,000 years old in eastern Mexico. Measuring at 215 miles long, it is believed to be the ...

De Miguel and Abd are both certified scuba divers and Abd has a camera housing that allowed them both to dive in the Yucatan peninsula’s cenotes and submerged caverns to document the beauty of what’s ...

imperiled cats and monkeys and underwater caves and rivers. “This Maya train construction is already harming the habitat of jaguars, ocelots, Yucatan spider monkeys and many other imperiled animals,” ...