Cowshead Cavern (in the news)

Eastern Massif, Picos de Europa, Northern Spain

Cowshead Cavern (in the news)

Cowshead Cavern (or Cueva de la Cabeza de Vaca) was discovered in 1986 by a L.U.S.S. / S.W.C.C. expedition. A small resurgence caves leads to some high level chambers and in one corner a calcited ‘cows’ skull was discovered.

Fast forward a few years and the skull was extracted for analysis and research. It transpires that the skull was in fact a >35000 year old Musk Ox skull. A rare discovery and an animal previously not known to the region.

Video below (in Spanish) about the discovery.