When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Jonathan and Todd join cave-diving legend Edd Sorenson at Florida’s Merritt’s Mill Pond to search for the elusive Georgia ...

An amphibian known as the Texas blind salamander can survive in complete darkness. They do have rudimentary, vestigial eyes, but they are covered by skin and nonfunctional. These animals are ...

Cave-dwelling creatures often bear the characteristics of animals unaccustomed to light. Their skin, or scales, are blanched, and their eyes range from “of little use” to purely ornamental. But that ...

Researchers recently scanned the heads of blind cave salamanders to learn how the species’ dark, aquatic environment shaped its senses. Using X-ray micro-computed tomography, they were able to map the ...

A showcase of evolutionarily designed sensory organs is revealed through high-resolution images of the head of the exclusively cave-dwelling blind salamander, Proteus anguinus. The proteus is an ...

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Commission approved adding the federally endangered Austin blind salamander to the state’s list of endangered species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed ...

Earth Day is Friday, April 22, 2022. It’s a day to celebrate our natural resources and think of ways we can conserve and maintain clean habitats One of our most cherished natural resources is the ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determined that two Texas species are not warranted for listing under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The Rio Grande Cooter is found within the Rio Grande ...

Researchers recently scanned the heads of blind cave salamanders to learn how the species’ dark, aquatic environment shaped its senses. Using X-ray micro-computed tomography, they were able to map the ...