In the arid mountains of northern Oman, rocky caves hold pools of water. Naturalists were exploring these subterranean lakes in the Al-Hoota cave in 1980 when they discovered a white, eyeless fish. It ...

A group of freshwater fish in Madagascar and another in Australia have a lot in common. Both are tiny, have no eyes and live in the total darkness of limestone caves. Now scientists say these two ...

Explorers entered a flooded cave system hidden deep in the forest, where light barely touched the water. As they swam through freezing tunnels, their flashlights caught pale, eyeless fish gliding ...

Scientists found an eyeless river creature with a “visible” skull in a cave of southern China and discovered a new species. Photo from Qin, Liu, Zhang, Shi, Du and Zhou (2025) In an underground cave ...

In an underground river of southeastern China, an “eyeless” cave creature with a “large hump” swam through the dark waters. Its hard-to-reach home kept it hidden — until some determined scientists ...

Learn more about the amblyopsid cavefishes, the eyeless fish that inhabit the caves of eastern North America, whose evolution can uncover the age of difficult-to-date cave systems. Sam Walters is the ...

Scientists found an “eyeless” cave creature with a “large hump” in an underground river of China and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Liu, Mao, Sudasinghe, Chen, Yang and ...