A short-lived experiment in the wake of the Mount St. Helens eruption has produced effects still visible 43 years later. By placing tiny creatures on barren volcanic ground, scientists unintentionally ...

Driving along the Stuart Highway from Tennant Creek to Katherine in Australia's Northern Territory, you might be more aware of lone eagles flying high above than what lies in the groundwaters beneath.

Under the mountains of south-central China, a network of underground rivers and caves holds unknown species. Joshua Fernandez via Unsplash Between two major rivers in China, a vast network of ...

Scientists have discovered four new species of pseudoscorpions, blind cave-dwelling arachnids with dragon-like jaws. The subterranean creatures were found deep inside caves in South Korea by ...

A new study of the Edwards Aquifer in Texas reveals that chemosynthetic microbes deep underground produce up to nearly half ...

Deep inside a high-altitude Chinese cave, scientists discovered a ghostly, eyeless freshwater snail that has evolved to live entirely in darkness, marking the first recorded discovery of its kind in ...

Deep beneath the Hyrcanian forests of northern Iran and the flowstone chambers of Montenegro's Dinaric Karst, two tiny white ...