New eyeless cavefish genus unearthed under Alabama Army base

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New eyeless cavefish genus unearthed under Alabama Army base
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Scientists discovered a new eyeless, pigmentless cavefish—Demogorgonichthys arcanus—in Bobcat Cave beneath Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. The eyeless fish represents a new freshwater genus that evolved independently from the nearby Southern Cavefish, and its finding in a long-monitored cave shows biodiversity can remain undiscovered in well-studied places.

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