This rare trait may allow the rainforest-dwelling species to move sideways instead of just forward, according to researchers.

Researchers exploring caves in Australia’s Nullarbor Plain have found mummified, eyeless invertebrates, including spiders, ...

Six students from across the county learned all they could about caves and what dwells within them during a cave camp Tuesday at Cook Museum of Natural Science in Decatur. The one-day camp was ...

An eyeless wasp is just one of several new cave-dwelling invertebrates discovered within the proposed boundary of a massive ...

Australia’s iconic bogong moths are the first creatures other than humans and some birds known to navigate by the night sky.

Billions of nocturnal Bogong moths migrate up to 1,000 km to cool caves in the Australian Alps that they have never ...

Juveniles were observed preying on insects three times their body size, researchers said. During their fieldwork, researchers discovered two new tarantula species in the forests surround the caves.

New research suggests that bed bugs are the earliest human pests, following us out of the caves roughly 60,000 years ago and booming as our population expanded into cities.. And we haven't been ...

The theory goes that about 60,000 years ago, a few intrepid bed bugs hopped off of a bat and clung to a Neanderthal walking out of a cave. The bugs from that lineage decided to see what tasty ...

For thousands of years, bed bugs have enjoyed living off their human hosts, and it may have all started when the bugs spread from bats to our Neanderthal ancestors. According to a new study published ...

Ever since a few enterprising bed bugs hopped off a bat and attached themselves to a Neanderthal walking out of a cave 60,000 years ago, bed bugs have enjoyed a thriving relationship with their ...

In caves, insects can hide from the effects of temperature, floral and faunal changes that happen more rapidly in the outside world, facilitating isolated evolutionary changes. Changing cave life.