When Hurricane Helene hit Valle Crucis in North Carolina, the creek across the Watauga River was already overflowing from 11 ...

If the proposed rule is finalized, the only place where West Virginia spring salamanders live—a 2.2-mile cave and stream system in Greenbrier County—will be designated as critical habitat.

The Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity, sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for denying Endangered Species Act protections to East ...

Perhaps the strangest-looking animal in this catch was a species dubbed Eurycea rathbuni, now known as the Texas blind salamander ... proclaimed themselves as cave dwellers, but their ...

"You do have complex vertebrate species that appear not to age, like the Galapagos tortoise or a cave-dwelling salamander called the olm. I do say 'appear not to age'; we haven't studied any of ...

These residents include eyeless fish, cave salamanders and an endangered albino cave shrimp. I had visited five national parks before I visited Mammoth Cave, including the Grand Canyon, but it was at ...

Animals here are called troglobites. Examples are cave crickets, blind cave salamanders and, where water is present, blind cave fish. Participants also can dig in a fossil pit where they are taught to ...

So, we do what we can, and we do it in a non-invasive way. So, we do collect samples from the cave salamanders, but in the form of excrements and in the form of, we basically take samples from ...

a cave fish, an inch-long, pure white ghost; a slimy salamander, black as coal and covered in mucus. In a large river passage with sandy banks on both sides, we examined prehistoric jaguar prints ...