South Dakota’s Wind Cave is the first national park to protect a cave—and it’s one of America’s oldest. The southwest corner of South Dakota is home to several of the state’s biggest hits, making for ...

Earth not only does not support diverse ecosystems, but it also has places that serve as analogs for other celestial worlds in our solar system. Astrobiologist Joshua Sebree of the University of ...

Eighteen cave explorers surveyed more than 3,500 feet of unexplored passages in Wind Cave on Feb. 11, making it the fourth-longest cave in the world. Cavers from Colorado, Nebraska and South Dakota ...

Hundreds of feet beneath the Black Hills, a team of scientists and researchers snake through dark, narrow and silent corridors of ancient rock to reach their goal: what is thought to be some of the ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The National Park Service is beginning to excavate the mouth of an unexplored cave in the Black Hills of South Dakota, and researchers believe it could help broaden our ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A winter tradition will be returning to Wind Cave National Park in January. The park will be doing an elk management program to reduce chronic wasting disease (CWD). The ...

A section of South Dakota’s Wind Cave seen under normal white light (left image) transforms into something otherworldly when placed under UV light (right image). SAN DIEGO, March 25, 2025 — Deep below ...