The discovery of a golden scaleless fish in China is helping scientists understand how animals evolved to live in caves.
One fish appears “plumper” than the other “due to the accumulation of viscous fluid.” A Barbodes klapanunggalensis, or Klapanunggal blind cave barb. Photo from Wibowo, Willyanto ...
One fish appears “plumper” than the other “due to the accumulation of viscous fluid.” Klapanunggal blind cave barbs live in shallow cave pools between about 90 and 170 feet underground ...
The venomous centipede crawled into the Movile Cave millions of years ago and adapted to live in the pitch black, surrounded ...
An X user named FearBuck shared the video of the fish, writing, "A deep-sea creature rarely seen by humans called the oarfish has washed ashore in Mexico!" A deep-sea creature rarely seen by ...
Photo from Qin, Liu, Zhang, Shi, Du and Zhou (2025) During their visits, the team found a few “extremely rare” cave fish, the study said. Intrigued, they took a closer look at the animals and ...