The Texas Blind Salamander spends its entire life in complete darkness, far below the bustling world above. Unlike most animals, it never sees the sun, nor does it experience the changing seasons.

Just consider where the Blanco blind salamander lives: deep underground in the Edwards Aquifer, one of the least accessible places on Earth. The aquifer is a complex underground structure made of ...

It's tough to be a Texas blind salamander. Not only are you ugly, slithery, and totally blind, but you are also endangered. As rapid urbanization degrades the salamander's underwater habitat ...

There could be thousands, or even millions more in the wild, but the Texas blind... As some blind salamanders go missing, the search goes on for others in the wild in San Marcos waters ...

In a tiny stretch of caves under central Texas, the blind salamander reigns supreme. We'll look at their evolution and efforts to save the species.

Blind salamanders once thought to be baby dragons can live at least as long as most people, scientists now find. Adults of this species live nearly 69 years on average, with a predicted maximum ...

The Texas blind is not without its charms: it’s a cave dweller some five inches in length, eyeless, with a distinctive set of fringy red gills and a pale white body, nearly devoid of pigment.

AUSTIN, Texas (CN) — Environmentalists sued Texas to try to save an endangered blind salamander and other species threatened by a highway project. The Austin blind salamander and Barton Springs ...

In the caves of Slovenia and Croatia lives an animal that’s a cross between Peter Pan and Gollum. It’s the olm, a blind, cave-dwelling salamander, also called the proteus and the “human fish ...

But millions of years ago, these aquatic salamanders moved to underwater caves beneath southeastern Europe’s Dinaric Alps and evolved into the pale, blind, foot-long creatures known today (SN: 4 ...