Also called "dikengyuan" in Mandarin, which means "pit courtyards," the homes are a type of cave dwelling ("yaodong") commonly found in the Loess Plateau in northern China. "Academic literature ...

GANSU- A number of foreign journalists from different countries visited Mogao Caves in Dunhuang city in China’s northwestern ...

we hypothesize that the new species may be undergoing a gradual evolutionary process towards caves,” researchers concluded.