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A blind cave fish that has spent millions of years underground isolated from evidence of day and night still has a working biological clock, albeit an unusually distorted one, scientists find.

Blind fish that spend their lives in dark, underwater caves have lost a huge chunk of their ability to hear, scientists report in the March 27 Biology Letters. Two of the fish species studied could ...

Could there be more biological treasures awaiting discovery in Asia's limestone cave systems? Ha Long Bay in the Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam, was inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1995 and provides a ...

While cave-dwelling fish might be somewhat of a regularity in certain parts of the world, you used to be able to count Europe out of that equation. Cave fish were unheard of in the region and it was ...

Living in perpetual darkness deep beneath the ground, cave fish are odd little creatures. With reduced eyes and pale coloration, they were thought to found on every continent except Antarctica and ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Geneticists at Harvard Medical School have discovered that a certain ...

A group of freshwater fish in Madagascar and another in Australia have a lot in common. Both are tiny, have no eyes and live in the total darkness of limestone caves. Now scientists say these two ...

POSTOJNA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia is counting down the days until the birth of a new generation of “baby dragons.” Scientists in the Central European country have proudly announced that a female olm ...

Millions of years ago, a small, unremarkable fish called the Mexican tetra started swimming into the caves of eastern Mexico. In the all-encompassing darkness of these limestone caverns, the tetras’ ...