Deep beneath the surface, isolated cave systems have produced animals that look almost alien after generations of evolution ...

Jonathan and Todd join cave-diving legend Edd Sorenson at Florida’s Merritt’s Mill Pond to search for the elusive Georgia ...

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Cave-dwelling creatures often bear the characteristics of animals unaccustomed to light. Their skin, or scales, are blanched, and their eyes range from “of little use” to purely ornamental. But that ...

Researchers recently scanned the heads of blind cave salamanders to learn how the species’ dark, aquatic environment shaped its senses. Using X-ray micro-computed tomography, they were able to map the ...

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Commission approved adding the federally endangered Austin blind salamander to the state’s list of endangered species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed ...