CATHERINE TOWNSHIP, Pa.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced an initial positive response today on a petition from conservation groups to protect the Heller Cave springtail, a tiny cave ...
ALTOONA, Penn.— The Center for Biological Diversity and Juniata Valley Audubon Society filed a petition today seeking Endangered Species Act protection for Pennsylvania’s Heller Cave springtail, a ...
WILLIAMSBURG — A proposed limestone quarry, which caused concern among environmentalists and neighbors seven years ago, again faces opposition in the wake of renewed mining interest. Limestone could ...
Conservationists have succeeded in saving a central Pennsylvania cave and surrounding wildlife habitat from a proposed limestone mine. A state-endangered bat species and a tiny cave arthropod found ...
Three bizarre-looking springtails, tiny insectlike creatures, have been discovered in a Spanish cave. Springtails are amongst the most ancient and widespread animals on the planet. Like insects, they ...
Deep inside the cave, there's no getting accustomed to the darkness. It's just dark. No light. None. And somehow, life continues to find a way to survive - even thrive - there. At Illinois Caverns ...
Scientists have recently described the deepest terrestrial animal ever found, together with four new species. These animals are springtails (Arthropoda, Insecta, Collembola), a minute primitive ...
Three bizarre-looking springtails, tiny insectlike creatures, have been discovered in a Spanish cave. Springtails are amongst the most ancient and widespread animals on the planet. Like insects, they ...
Deep inside the cave, there’s no getting accustomed to the darkness. It’s just dark. No light. None. And somehow, life continues to find a way to survive — even thrive — there. At Illinois Caverns ...