In 1988, Australian screenwriter Andrew Wright participated in a diving expedition to the Pannikin Plains cave system, which turned to disaster when flash floods collapsed the entrance to the caves.

NEWTON COUNTY, Ind. — Though researchers scoured grasslands at Kankakee Sands in the hopes of finding one, it wasn’t until they checked a portion of prairielands on the property’s eastern edge that ...

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And I'm Ailsa Chang in Los Angeles, where spider season is in full swing. And not just because it's almost Halloween, but also because this is the time of year that certain spiders have fattened up, ...