A newly discovered golden cave fish in southwestern China is giving scientists an unprecedented look at evolution in action.

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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, ...

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 ...

A diver spotted an unusual pink fish swimming in an underwater grotto in Germany, and researchers now say it is the first known cave fish ever discovered in Europe. The fish, known as a loach in the ...

Scientists found an aquatic creature with skin instead of eyes in a cave of Indonesia and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Wibowo, Willyanto, Dharmayanthi, Rahmadi and Lumbantobing ...

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 ...

Mexican tetras in pitch-black caverns had no use for the energetically costly organs. Excellent. These need to be studied closely. We will need food sources when we move into cave habitats just to ...

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 ...

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