In two villages in the Guizhou Province of China, sloping caves hold water below the surface. Their openings lead down nearly 1,000 feet to large pools of water, their total expanse unknown because of ...

Mammoth Cave National Park, home to the world’s longest known cave system, stretches for more than 680 kilometres, and counting, into the Earth. What began as a limestone labyrinth has turned out to ...

A cave-dwelling fish has been swimming the waters of India unknowingly. But researchers have just discovered the mysterious fish, which they named Schistura densiclava, in Meghalaya’s Krem Mawjymbuin ...

A wildlife survey team working inside a Thai cave made an unexpected find in 2024: two previously undocumented dragon millipede species. These arthropods get their fantastical name from their ...

Caves can be thought of as nature’s original prefabricated homes. Here are five animal species that choose to live in them. While the image of early humans huddled in caves has become an almost ...

In karst caves in southern China, two new species were discovered in cages set by researchers. Rui Marinho via Unsplash In two villages in the Guizhou Province of China, sloping caves hold water below ...