A vast chasm in southern China has opened a window into a world that feels untouched by modern life, revealing a deep, hidden forest sealed off for millennia. When cavers descended into the 630-foot ...

Cave explorers stumbled upon a prehistoric forest at the bottom of a giant sinkhole in South China earlier this month. Sinkholes such as these are also known in Chinese as Tiankeng, or "Heavenly pit." ...

Chinese scientists discovered a primitive forest in a giant sinkhole in May this year. The sinkhole is 630 feet deep, and a team of spelunkers rappelled down into it. While exploring, they found three ...

JINAN (China), Dec 27 (Bernama-Xinhua) -- China’s first subway line to pass through a karst spring area began operations on Saturday in Jinan, east China’s Shandong Province, marking an engineering ...

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Tourists visit the Wulong Furong Cave in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, April 25, 2017. Featuring its karst landscapes, the Wulong Furong Cave re-opened to tourists recently after an ...

The new gecko species is described as being long and slender and of “moderate” size just under 3 inches long, according to a study. Photo by Zhong Huang. While surveying the forests around southern ...

In the karst mountains of southern China, a new species shows off its climbing skills. Chen Z-G, Jiang J, Lin R-X, Xie G-L, Dai Y-T, Wu X-P, Ouyang S (2024) Zoosystematics and Evolution In 2017, Alex ...