Over the last decade, Tulum has blossomed into a major tourist destination along the Yucatán Peninsula. One of the main attractions are the thousands of cenotes that blanket Tulum, where people swim, ...

Beneath the Yucatán jungle lies a surreal underwater world. Cenote Diving Adventure follows a GoPro-equipped diver as they plunge into the crystal-clear waters of a Mexican cenote, exploring stunning ...

Points of rock hung from the ceiling, piercing the water’s surface and extending down another few feet like upside down porcupine spines. Ripples surrounded them and, with our lights, they seem to ...

If the marine world is the least explored region of our planet, then underwater caves represent Earth’s final frontier—which begins to explain why I’m standing in the middle of a Mexican jungle gazing ...

The Yucatan Peninsula is home to thousands of cenotes, sinkholes filled with clear, fresh water. You can swim, snorkel, and even scuba dive in many of them. But which one to choose? Perhaps the most ...

John Donovan is a writer based in Atlanta. He writes on a range of topics including nature, health, history, and pop culture. In the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, on the southeastern shore of the ...

An 8,000-year-old skeleton discovered deep within a flooded cave system on Mexico's Caribbean coast is shedding new light on the prehistoric inhabitants of the Yucatán Peninsula. The remains, found by ...

Underwater caves can be found around the world, but appear and develop differently according to their environment. Caves in warmer waters can be home to coral reefs, while ice caves have less abundant ...