China's traditional villages have become the largest group of protected agricultural civilization heritage sites in the world. Over the years, President Xi Jinping has inspected multiple traditional ...

Researchers discovered a new species of cave-dwelling shrimp in China, according to a new study. Photo by tian dayong on Unsplash A tiny cave creature navigated its home in a subterranean river in ...

In caves in a south-central China village, a creature with large eyes shows evolution in action. Xiao M-Y, Wang J-J, Luo T, Zhou J-J, Xiao N, Zhou J (2025) Zoosystematics and Evolution In the center ...

Deep in an underground river of southern China, a blind pink creature swam through its darkened surroundings. The cave-dwelling animal was rarely encountered but — when scientists finally found it — ...

In karst caves in southern China, two new species were discovered in cages set by researchers. Rui Marinho via Unsplash In two villages in the Guizhou Province of China, sloping caves hold water below ...

Zhongdong Miao Village is located in a mountain 1,800 meters above sea level in Ziyun county, southwest China’s Guizhou province. The largest cave in the mountain is approximately 230 meters long, 115 ...

A tiny cave creature navigated its home in a subterranean river in China. His “degenerated” eyes didn’t notice an unusual object — and he swam straight into a researcher’s cage net. Scientists were ...