There is no light deep in the rocky world of caves - but there is an abundance of animals specially adapted to the challenge of life in total darkness. There are caves all over the planet, but only a ...

In the depths of the world's longest cave, researchers have uncovered the fossilized remains of a 340-million-year-old shark.

The discovery of a golden scaleless fish in China is helping scientists understand how animals evolved to live in caves.

In caves in a south-central China village, a creature with large eyes shows evolution in action. Xiao M-Y, Wang J-J, Luo T, Zhou J-J, Xiao N, Zhou J (2025) Zoosystematics and Evolution In the center ...

Today, these labyrinthine passages host a variety of tiny sea creatures found nowhere else on the planet. But during the last ice age when sea levels were much lower, the caves were the high-and ...

Scientists found an eyeless river creature with a “visible” skull in a cave of southern China and discovered a new species. Photo from Qin, Liu, Zhang, Shi, Du and Zhou (2025) In an underground cave ...

The team, who had set out to study aquatic cave creatures, entered the underwater cave on Feb 5. Five of the members dived under the water and two of them didn't return by around 7 pm. After ...

She knew that deep inside the cave lay thousands of bones. Small bones and large bones, jawbones and ankle bones, finger bones and foot bones and skulls. The bones belonged to strange creatures ...

To survive in an environment that has no sunlight — and therefore no plants that produce energy via photosynthesis — the creatures in the cave depend on nutrients produced by bacteria through ...

Scientists have found ancient nail tooth shark fossils deep inside Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, revealing new information about ...