The venomous centipede crawled into the Movile Cave millions of years ago and adapted to live in the pitch black, surrounded ...

Rather, cave wyrms were scaled, venomous, and known to lurk deep in caves or marshes. These giant, serpent-like creature appear in countless ancient stories, from epic tales like Beowulf to the ...

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

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

“This further suggests that most cave fishes may not have lived in cave ecosystems for more than a few million years,” write ...

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 ...

With high carbon dioxide, low oxygen and no photosynthesis, here’s how an entire ecosystem persists in Movile Cave, one of the most extreme environments on Earth.

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 ...

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 receiving ...

Find out what it takes to plunge into the dark and mysterious world of underwater caves. Caves are home to numerous animals that prefer to spend their lives hidden in the shadows. Even caves that are ...