Last week the International Journal of Myriapodology published the first population genetic study of cave millipedes. This research highlights an important challenge in the conservation of cave ...

Millipedes, the little blunt-headed invertebrates with a habit of coiling up like baby ferns, rarely live up their name. In Latin, millipede means “thousand feet,” though the majority of the ...

Four new species of dragon millipedes from China, two of which are cave dwellers, a team of scientists has described in a new report. The millipede genus Desmoxytes is well-known because the ...

A cave-dwelling fish has been swimming the waters of India unknowingly. But researchers have just discovered the mysterious fish, which they named Schistura densiclava, in Meghalaya’s Krem Mawjymbuin ...

Scientists found a “long”-legged creature in a cave at the bottom of a sinkhole in Argentina and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Romero-Rincon and Lopes Ferreira (2025) At the ...

Cave millipedes of the genus Tetracion are found on the southern Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee and Alabama, USA. New genetic analyses show that their populations are generally isolated and ...