More than 100 metres (328ft) beneath them is a lost world of ancient forests, plants and animals. All they can see is leafy tree tops and hear is the echoes of cicadas and birds bouncing off the ...
Attendees at China’s first international conference on space habitation and exploitation were given a tour of a vast underground cave system that Chinese researchers are hoping to use as a ...
China - and Guangxi particularly - has so many because of the abundance of limestone. When an underground river slowly dissolves the surrounding limestone rock, it creates a cave that expands ...
Xie Gengxin, from the Centre of Space Exploration at Chongqing University in southwestern China, organised the visit to Youyang Base, where large-scale closed cave ecosystem validation research is ...
Chinese researchers discovered a giant panda fossil during a recent expedition in the Shuanghe Cave in Suiyang County, southwest China's Guizhou Province. Their find is the 47th giant panda fossil ...