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Q: A friend told me some time ago of seeing blind cave fish in a Lanesborough cave. What is your opinion? T.C., Pittsfield A: My guess is that your friend saw some small fish that were swept into the ...

Although we look very different from many of the other creatures on this planet, we’re more connected than you might think. Our evolutionary history means we share many of the same genes and ...

Locals found a “blunt”-headed river creature near a cave in China and discovered a new species, a study said and photos show. Photo from Hong-Fu Yang via Lei, Pu, Yang, Zhu, Mo, Liu, Wang and Bi (2025 ...

A new species of cave-dwelling fish was discovered in Meghalaya’s Mawsynram town by a team of researchers from Gauhati University, Lady Keane College in Shillong, and the ICAR-National Bureau of Fish ...

The Mexican tetra lives in freshwater streams and pools from Mexico up into the southern United States. But these fish also ...

A team of cavers in southwestern China lowered themselves into a shaft-like chasm and ventured into a series of underground tunnels. Eventually, they reached a cold river in the “deep dark zone of the ...

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BERLIN (AP) — A German man who goes diving underground for a hobby has discovered what scientists say is Europe's first known cave fish. Spelunker Joachim Kreiselmaier chanced upon the fish in August ...

In eastern Mexico’s underground caverns and streams, a blind fish undergoes a peculiar adolescence: as it approaches maturity, taste buds begin to sprout under its chin and on top of its head, ...

The Mexican cave fish (code name: Astyanax mexicanus) isn't just blind and eyeless, it also has a shrunken brain. Exactly how it ended up that way is a bit of an ...

The fish occur naturally in several forms adapted to living in caves; all are descendants of a surface-dwelling ancestor and vary from partially to completely blind. The cave-adapted fish also show a ...