When researchers in Uganda set up camera traps to monitor African leopards (Panthera pardus pardus) and spotted hyenas ...

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 ...

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 ...

In their quest to find new species, researchers trudge through muddy swamps, climb towering mountains, and in one case, climbed down into a rocky cave as the smell of rotten eggs hit them in the face.

An Ice Age cave discovery in Central Texas has provided stunning evidence that giant creatures once roamed the region.

Scientists found an aquatic cave creature with “visible” internal organs in China and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Shi, Chen, Che, Dao, Liu, Wang, Yang and Wang (2025) At the ...

A team of cavers in southwestern China lowered themselves into a shaft-like chasm and ventured into a series of underground tunnels. Eventually, they reached a cold river in the “deep dark zone of the ...

Scientists found a “long”-legged creature in a cave at the bottom of a sinkhole in Argentina and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Romero-Rincon and Lopes Ferreira (2025) At the ...

Researchers found dozens of tiny, see-through crustaceans in an Australian cave, including a new “giant” species measuring nearly 6mm (not pictured). JURE MAKOVEC AFP via Getty Images Beneath a remote ...

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 ...