Researchers have confirmed a cave-dwelling pit viper in Laos as a species previously unknown to science. The newly described snake stands out for its yellow-orange snout, and researchers found it on ...

Researchers describe Vietpetalum, a new genus of cave-dwelling paracortinid millipedes from northern Vietnam, including two ...

Researchers, rangers and cave divers are studying an endangered ghost bat colony that survived 2023 flooding in Camooweal’s cave network. #GhostBats #Queensland #Conservation ...

Credit: Alberto Martínez Villa Ancient DNA from cave walls offers clues to prehistoric visitors’ sex and ancestry, potentially allowing scientists to investigate who used these spaces without ...

Scientists uncover a previously unknown yak-like Ice Age mammal in Siberia's Denisova Cave using ancient DNA, revealing a ...

Researchers sifted 8,173 arthropod remains from a cave on Gran Canaria and found signs it stored grain before it became a ...

Deep inside a high-altitude Chinese cave, scientists discovered a ghostly, eyeless freshwater snail that has evolved to live entirely in darkness, marking the first recorded discovery of its kind in ...

A Siberian cave already famous for yielding the first remains of an extinct human lineage called the Denisovans, who once ...

Archaeologists are investigating a mysterious and remote Spanish cave - an extraordinary site which is now fast emerging as ...

Beneath Australia's vast Nullarbor Plain lies an enormous limestone cave system containing ancient human artifacts, ...

In Cozumel, Mexico, divers join biologists studying the unusual animals living inside Aerolito cenote, a vast cave system connected to the nearby ocean. Sensors inside the cave monitor environmental ...

Cave biologist Daniel Wu Fong, whose decades of quantitative genetic and molecular work on the amphipod Gammarus minus ...