For well over a century, Darwin’s theory of natural selection has served as biology’s grand unifying framework, explaining how species adapt and evolve through the differential replication of randomly ...

The Bengals are doing their best to improve the quarterback room in Cincinnati amid a 2-4 start to their season. According to multiple reports, they've traded for Browns signal-caller Joe Flacco.

Data centers are demanding more power, and they’re demanding it at record-shattering numbers. By 2030, data center power demand is estimated to increase by 165% — a number that could “upend power ...

Yale scientists discovered that cavefish species independently evolved blindness and depigmentation as they adapted to dark cave environments, with some lineages dating back over 11 million years.

Small, colorless, and blind, amblyopsid cavefishes inhabit subterranean waters throughout the eastern United States. In a new study, Yale researchers reveal insights into just how these distinctive ...

Time and again, whenever a population was swept into a cave and survived long enough for natural selection to have its way, the eyes disappeared. “But it’s not that everything has been lost in ...

Mexican tetras are a most peculiar fish species. They occur in many rivers and lakes across Mexico and southern Texas, where they look perfectly ordinary. But unlike most other fishes, tetras also ...

Scientists found a “smooth” river creature with an “elongated” nose in a cave of China and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Getty / iStockphoto In an underground river of southern ...

Scientists found an “eyeless” cave creature with a “large hump” in an underground river of China and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Liu, Mao, Sudasinghe, Chen, Yang and ...

As the Indiana weather heats up, you're probably looking for your next outdoor adventure to be of the cooler variety. And lucky for you, these caverns and caves typically range from 50 to 60 degrees ...

The Indigenous peoples of the Bolivian highlands are survivors. For thousands of years they have lived at altitudes of more than two miles, where oxygen is about 35 percent lower than at sea level.