Discovered in 2000 by an amateur cave explorer, the Grotte de Cussac in the Dordogne department holds ancient human remains, ...

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

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 ...

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

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It was identified from a collection of small fossilized teeth found within the Ste. Genevieve Formation, a layer of limestone ...

Scientists found an aquatic creature with skin instead of eyes in a cave of Indonesia and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Wibowo, Willyanto, Dharmayanthi, Rahmadi and ...

In the arid mountains of northern Oman, rocky caves hold pools of water.

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 ...

Published Feb. 27 | Read More | ‘Golden’ cave creature — with ‘large’ eyes — discovered in China. See the new species The fish has a “golden yellow” body and large eyes ...