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A sinkhole in South Dakota is packed with mammoth fossils that experts have been digging up for half a century. Take a look.
"I never fail to be inspired when I walk into the museum," Chris Jass, the museum's director of res…
Jenny McGrath
Why sinkholes swallow roads and cities
They can happen in an instant and quickly swallow up roads, cars, and even houses. While fairly rar…
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A 105 feet-wide sinkhole was found in Chile. Here are other sinkholes, manmade and natural, that opened up around the world.
Investigators are looking into possible causes for the collapse, which joins the ranks of other mys…
Lloyd Lee
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A swimming pool sinkhole sucked a man to his death at a company party in Israel
The 32-year-old died after a 43-feet deep sinkhole suddenly opened up as he swam in a villa swimmin…
Bethany Dawson
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Chinese cave explorers discovered a 630-foot-deep sinkhole containing a massive ancient forest
"I wouldn't be surprised to know that there are species found in these caves that have never been r…
Amanda Goh
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50 California firefighters had to pull people out of 2 cars that careened into a 15-foot sinkhole
Over a dozen people died due to the storms, and hundreds of thousands remain without power, accordi…
Azmi Haroun
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A sinkhole in West Virginia has grown so big that it's threatening to swallow the city's police department
The sinkhole opened up in a West Virginia parking lot last year but recent heavy rainfall made it g…
Jake Epstein
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Video shows firefighters rescuing 2 dogs from a massive sinkhole that nearly swallowed a house in Mexico
The dogs had been trapped in the 400-foot-wide sinkhole in the central Mexican state of Puebla for …
Kelly McLaughlin
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A 65-foot-deep sinkhole in Mexico is on the verge of swallowing a house after it emerged and expanded over a few hours
Experts think the 300-foot-wide sinkhole was a result of softening the farmland and extracting grou…
Joey Hadden
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40ft deep sinkhole swallows farmer riding a quad bike
The 8ft wide sinkhole opened up as the man rode across a field at Bowesfield Farm in Stank, south C…
Naina Bhardwaj
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A massive 66ft-deep sinkhole opened up in an Italian hospital parking lot, forcing the evacuation of a COVID-19 ward
Patients and staff at the hospital reported hearing an explosion, which they initially thought was …
Naina Bhardwaj,Sophia Ankel
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Divers found fossils of an ancient giant sloth hidden in a sinkhole. The creature was 20 feet long.
That tooth - an impressive 4 inches long and 1 inch wide - was of particular interest to researcher…
Aylin Woodward
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A New York man with terrible luck fell into a sinkhole teeming with rats and was trapped for a half hour
Leonard Shoulders, who broke several bones in the fall, said he didn't call for help because he was…
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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Scientists completed one of the most detailed explorations inside the Great Blue Hole. Here's what they found at the bottom of the giant, mysterious sinkhole.
Bergman: We did encounter two of the probable three people who have been lost in the Blue Hole, so …
Steve Cameron,Rebecca Wilkin
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An expanding sinkhole in Florida has swallowed 7 homes
A sinkhole in Land O'Lakes, Florida destroyed two homes on July 14, and five other homes have since…
Noah Friedman
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Here's why huge sinkholes open up in the ground out of nowhere
Sinkholes seemingly come out of nowhere, swallowing everything in their path, and generally looking…
Brad Streicher,Rebecca Harrington
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A 20-foot-long sinkhole ripped open a busy Manhattan street
The street has been used as a staging ground to inflate balloons for the annual Macy's Th…
Jeremy Berke
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Divers found human waste in Tulum's sinkholes and cave pools as a construction boom in the region destroys a natural water filtration system
Cenotes in Tulum, Mexico, have grown polluted as construction in the popular tourist town booms to …
Sarah Jackson
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A giant sinkhole has opened up in Brooklyn
Pictures posted on twitter show a large hole that could have easily swallowed up a car. The cave in…
Alex Lockie
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Thousands of sinkholes the size of basketball courts are ruining The Dead Sea
However, the Dead Sea is in danger of disappearing due to lack of water coming in from its main sou…