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 ...

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 ...

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 Fish and Wildlife Service says it needs more time to examine the science while considering protections for two species of small fish that live in an aquifer. Two species of blind cave-dwelling ...

Through a small opening in a karst region of China, a pool of water held a blind new species. Ge J-Y, Nong Z-Q, Yang J, Du L-N, Zhou J-J (2024) Zoosystematics and Evolution Deep under the surface of a ...

In an underground stream in a cave in southern China, a new species lives its life in the dark, researchers said. Shao W-H, Cheng G-Y, Lu X-L, Zhou J-J, Zeng Z-X (2024) Zoosystematics and Evolution ...

Scientists have long been trying to figure out how exactly our ancestors evolved from fish to land vertebrates some 375 million years ago. Now a tiny, eyeless fish that walks and climbs up waterfalls ...