Sarah Raven, gardener and writer, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne.

The deep sea, cold polar waters and nutrient-poor cave environments seem to prolong life spans. It was not my aim to correlate longevity with body size but there is a general tendency that bigger ...

Wilcox found the sediment evidence described in the study during field research in remote caves on Prince of Wales Island. "The cave sediments struck me as odd, as they contained no organic debris ...

In a dark cave in southern China carved out by a subterranean river, a “golden” creature sat hidden from the world. It was a new species of cavefish — one of many poorly known or ...

squatting to find cave shrimp, and taking moments of silence in the complete dark. As Primož Gnezda, another scientist on the team, says, “Everyone wants to see a dragon.” Rebecca Toy is a ...

Image by Gordon Smith, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The Kaua’i cave wolf spider, discovered only in 1971, is a remarkable example of island cave evolution. Found exclusively in a small system ...

The Kauai Cave Wolf Spider represents one of the most remarkable evolutionary adaptations to subterranean darkness and highlights the fragility of such specialized species. Endemic solely to a handful ...