Salamanders can regenerate their lost body parts like limbs, tail, and even part of their heart and spinal cord. This incredible regenerative ability makes them unique. Sea Cucumbers can regenerate ...

This unique shrimp species is endemic to the caves of Kentucky, including Mammoth Cave. It is nearly blind and has adapted to the cave environment over time. Another bat species found in the park, the ...

Live paratype of golden scaleless cave fish (Sinocyclocheilus xingrenensis sp. nov). Credit: Xiao M-Y / CC BY 4.0 Researchers in China have discovered a previously unknown golden scaleless cavefish, ...

Researchers in China have discovered a previously unknown golden scaleless cavefish, shedding light on how species continue to evolve in underground environments. The newly identified Xingren ...

For decades, Pierre Huyghe has made art out of almost anything — hermit crabs, blind cavefish, monkeys, human skeletons, brain scans and even cancer cells. Armed with such an uncanny array of ...

Lloyd et al. used an evolutionary comparative approach to study DNA damage repair associated with low sleep duration in Astyanax mexicanus, highlighting how the cavefish population has evolved a ...

The work shows, convincingly, that the cavefish population has evolved an impaired DNA damage response both following sleep deprivation or a classical paradigm of DNA damage (UV). Having a second ...