Between two major rivers in China, a vast network of underground caves and rivers crisscrosses below the surface. The caverns are created as monsoon rains wear down the soft karst rock on the way ...

South China Karst is one of the world’s most spectacular examples ... intervening deep enclosed depressions (cockpits), sinking streams and long underground caves. The area is considered a world ...

Photo from Lei, He, Huang, Zhou and He (2025) A team of cavers in southwestern China lowered themselves into a shaft-like chasm and ventured into a series of underground tunnels. Eventually, they ...

Li, T. et al. (2025.) In a dark, damp cave in southeastern China, a creature with three jaws and a taste for blood clung to the rock ceiling, colored red from its recent meal. Researchers manually ...

Scientists and cavers found a “pinkish” creature with a semi-transparent belly in an underground ... Taojin Dolomite Cave in Sichuan Province, a region of southwestern China, the study said.