A skull found in Peștera cu Oase ( The Cave with Bones ) in 2004-5 bears features of both modern humans and Neanderthals.

Cave bears were comparable in size to the largest modern-day bears.

Cave bears of the last Ice Age lacked the usual two or three premolars present in other bears ; to compensate, the last molar is very elongated, with supplementary cusps.

Skull of Ursus spelaeus: Cave bears lacked the usual two or three premolars present in other bear species.

Cave bears found in different regions vary in age, thus facilitating investigations into evolutionary trends.

Rather than depicting only the familiar herbivores that predominate in Paleolithic cave art, i. e. horses, cattle, mammoths, etc., the walls of the Chauvet Cave feature many predatory animals, e. g., cave lions, panthers, bears, and cave hyenas.

Among the most recognizable Eurasian species are the woolly mammoth, straight-tusked elephant, aurochs, cave lion, cave bear, Cave hyena, Irish elk, giant polar bears, woolly rhinoceros, Merck ´ s rhinoceros, narrow-nosed rhinoceros, and Elasmotherium.

" Some attribute the name to Jambavantha or Jamwant, the Riksharaja ( the king of the bears in the army of King Sugriva in the Ramayana ), who is said to have meditated in the Peer Kho Cave on the banks of the Tawi River.

Musician Nick Cave grew up in the suburb, and TISM played their first show at the Murrumbeena athletics track club rooms.

The Sand Cave rescue attempt grew to become the third-biggest media event between the world wars.

* Chifley Cave: Discovered in 1880 and with electric lighting installed almost immediately, the Chifley Cave was known as the Left Imperial Cave until 1952, when it was renamed in honour of the then recently-deceased former Prime Minister Ben Chifley, who grew up in nearby Bathurst.

The Woodville Karst Plain Project or WKPP, grew out of a cave diving research and exploration group established in 1985 and incorporated in 1990 ( by Bill Gavin and Bill Main, later joined by Parker Turner, Lamar English and Bill McFaden, at the time the chairman of the NACD Exploration and Survey Committee ) to map the underwater cave systems underlying the Woodville Karst Plain, a area that runs from Tallahassee, Florida, U. S. to the Gulf of Mexico and includes numerous first magnitude springs, including Wakulla Springs, and the Leon Sinks Cave System, the longest underwater cave in the United States.

The larger Middle Pleistocene Golden Eagles of France ( and possibly elsewhere ) are referred to a paleosubspecies Aquila chrysaetos bonifacti, and the huge specimens of the Late Pleistocene of Liko Cave ( Crete ) have been named Aquila chrysaetos simurgh .</ ref >

Some of the larger caves to be found in Carter County are Camp Yarn Cave, Midco Cave, Granite Quarry Cave, and Lost Man's Cave.

Cave divers have suggested that cave diving is in fact statistically much safer than recreational diving due to the much larger barriers imposed by experience, training, and equipment cost.

Within the park are several spectacular features based around rock formations, including Old Man's Cave, a narrow, deep gorge featuring waterfalls ; Rock House, a cliffed area with a rock shelter ; Cantwell Cliffs, a broad gorge at the head of a hollow with a unique stone stairway ; and Ash Cave, a large rock shelter with a small waterfall, and Cedar Falls, a larger waterfall south of Old Man's Cave.

Cave squigs are physically similar to regular squigs except that they are much larger.

Lechuguilla Cave surpassed its nearby sister, Carlsbad Caverns, in size, depth, and variety of speleothems, though no room has been discovered yet in Lechuguilla Cave that is larger than Carlsbad's Big Room.

The main cave system is divided into two parts: the more accessible Simud Hitam ( Black Cave ), and the larger Simud Putih ( White Cave ) which lies above.

Simud Putih ( White Cave ) is the larger of the two caves, and also the more dangerous ; special permission is required to enter and one must participate in at least five hours of intense spelunking.

Cave paintings thought to depict this bird are known, as are carved footprints larger than those considered to represent emus.

Eventually, Damiel meets the trapeze artist Marion at a bar ( during a concert by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ), and they greet each other with familiarity as if they had long known each other.

( 1951 ) Report of human remains and materials recovered from the River Axe in the Great Cave of Wookey Hole during diving operations from October 1947 to Jan. 1949.

* 23 September: A 48-year-old man was killed and three of his children wounded, one seriously, in a shooting attack near the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron during the Sukkot festival.

In 2010, during an excavation at the Sibudu Cave in South Africa, led by Professor Lyn Wadley from the University of the Witwatersrand, researchers discovered the earliest direct evidence of human-made arrowheads: 64, 000-year-old stone points which may have been shot from a bow.

Mulvaney's excavation of Kenniff Cave, it was thought that Australia had only been occupied during the Holocene, less than 10, 000 years before present.

Dunbar Cave is also reported to have been mined for saltpeter during the Mexican War, but commercial development has erased any evidence of this mining.

In all likelihood, Bellamy Cave and Cooper Creek Cave were mined during the War of 1812.

An ancient site was found during archaeological excavations at Graham Cave on the Loutre River.

Big Bone Cave was a major saltpeter mine during the War of 1812.

Big Bone Cave was again a major source of saltpeter during the Civil War.

Tobaccoport Saltpeter Cave was intensely mined for saltpeter, possibly during the War of 1812.

Another important saltpeter mine during the Civil War was Monteagle Saltpeter Cave, located in Cave Cove, approximately 4 miles southeast of Monteagle.

Lookout Mountain Cave was a major source of saltpeter during the Civil War.

Civil War Days are an annual tourist event, during which time parades down Main Street and re-enactments of a Civil War battle at Rowlett's Station, between Horse Cave and Munfordville, Kentucky are staged.

Several destructive fires affected Santa Barbara during this time: the 1964 Coyote Fire, which burned of backcountry along with 106 homes ; the smaller, but quickly moving, Sycamore Fire in 1977, which burned 200 homes ; the disastrous 1990 Painted Cave Fire, which incinerated over 500 homes in only several hours, during an intense Sundowner wind event ; the November 2008 Tea Fire, which destroyed 210 homes in the foothills of Santa Barbara and Montecito ; and the 2009 Jesusita Fire that burned and destroyed 160 homes above the San Roque region of Santa Barbara.

* Kingston Saltpeter Cave is the largest cave in Bartow County and was used to help produce gunpowder for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.

Formations seen during a tour of Marengo Cave.

King Philip's Cave, in East Freetown, is said to have been a hiding place for Metacomet during the King Philip's War.

The Cave Springs School also served as a church and a military headquarters for the Enrolled Missouri Militia ( Union ) during the American Civil War.

Each year Cave Junction features an ArtWalk on the second Friday of each month, except during the winter, with the city's businesses exhibiting various types of art such as pottery, iron art, music and fire dancing.

* Cave rescue — to rescue people injured, trapped, or lost during caving explorations.

Cave weta may be active within the confines of their caves during the daytime, and those individuals close to cave entrances venture outside at night.