A cave-dwelling fish has been swimming the waters of India unknowingly. But researchers have just discovered the mysterious ...

Hibernation isn't limited to caves or burrows. Some animals bed down in places you’d never expect - underwater, up in trees, or even inside their own bodies.

Cavers encountered a massive blue crab in a cavern in India, marking the first time the at-risk species had been spotted in ...

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was ...

Bermuda's Walsingham cave system harbors a wide diversity of cave-dwelling animals not found anywhere else in the world. Now, ...

"When we leave the caves, we're wiped." But Testa and Shirley are part of a scientific research team that has found an animal they think may be evolving to live in the harsh caves—crocodiles.

Scientists have gained some guarded optimism in efforts to protect and save bats from white-nose disease. Now there's a whole ...

The hidden animals were revealed on cave walls in Spain with 'Magic Eye'-style techniques. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

His words are “he (Prof. Lankester) has overlooked the fact that blind cave-animals are born or hatched at the present day with well developed eyes.” Further on he proceeds to state that no ...

[Related: Cave drawings from 20,000 years ago may feature an early form of writing.] While engravings of human footprints and animal tracks appear in various traditions of prehistoric rock art ...

Patrick Aventurier/GettyImages Between 17,000 and 12,000 years ago, unnamed artists covered the extensive Lascaux cave system in France’s Dordogne region with hundreds of paintings of animals ...

To fathom living within the pitch-black recesses of caves is difficult for humans, accustomed as we are to our sunglass wearing, sunscreen applying lifestyles. However, many animals have adapted ...