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  • Death-Defying Cave Dives Pay Off In Discoveries

    Tom Iliffe diving with his Megalodon closed-circuit rebreather in a lava tube cave in the Canary Islands. (Jill Heinerth/CC BY-ND) By Tom Iliffe, Texas A&M University marine biology professor, for The Conversation Maybe when you picture a university professor doing research it involves test tubes and beakers, or perhaps…

  • Texas A&M-Galveston Team Finds Cave Organisms Living Off Methane Gas

    Bil Phillips, cave explorer, who was also a member of the Texas A&M-led team uses a flashlight and line to navigate the underwater cave. (HP Hartmann) By Keith Randall, Texas A&M University Marketing and Communications In a surprising find deep in an underwater cave in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, a…