Fossil collectors in Florida have discovered an ancient sinkhole, now at the bottom of a river, which holds the remains of animals rarely seen in the state, including a type of giant armadillo, giant ...

Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...

The seven-month dig was part of a $58 million wastewater treatment infrastructure project in Clackamas County.

Around 2,600 cases of road sinkholes in 2022 were caused by sewer pipes, according to local media. Most were small, at only 50cm deep or less. In 2016, a giant sinkhole around 30m wide and 15m ...

TOKYO, Japan — Japanese rescuers completed building a slope on Saturday to reach a truck driver stuck in a sinkhole, officials said, four days after his vehicle was swallowed by the cavity now 40 ...

A slope was completed Saturday for using heavy machinery in the search for a male truck driver trapped in a sinkhole that appeared Tuesday in the city of Yashio, Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo.

As the sinkhole has expanded, heavy chunks of asphalt have occasionally fallen in, preventing rescue workers from going near the chasm. This has also made it dangerous to place heavy machinery nearby.

YASHIO, Japan – Emergency workers in Japan began building a ramp on Jan 31 to try and reach a 74-year-old truck driver who has not been heard from since his vehicle was swallowed by a sinkhole ...

Emergency workers in Japan have begun building a ramp to try and reach a 74-year-old truck driver who has not been heard from since his vehicle was swallowed by a sinkhole this week. The cavity ...

The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images A 74-year-old man is still waiting to be rescued after his truck was swallowed by a giant sinkhole near Tokyo four days ago. It was previously reported that ...

An aerial photo shows sinkholes at an intersection in Yashio City, Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo on Jan. 31, 2025 ...

YASHIO (JAPAN) — Emergency workers in Japan began building a ramp Friday to try and reach a 74-year-old truck driver who has not been heard from since his vehicle was swallowed by a sinkhole ...