The discovery of a golden scaleless fish in China is helping scientists understand how animals evolved to live in caves.

In the center of a village in south-central China, scientists may have discovered evolution in action. Researchers conducting fish surveys in the waterways of Guizhou Province between 2012 and 2020 ...

In an underground cave of southern China, an eyeless river creature with an externally “visible” skull moved through the dark waters. Its hard-to-reach home helped it go largely unnoticed.

Scientists found an eyeless river creature with a “visible” skull in a cave of southern China and discovered a new species. Photo from Qin, Liu, Zhang, Shi, Du and Zhou (2025) In an ...