1. Researchers from the Museum and Louisiana State University have discovered that two groups of blind cave fishes now separated by about 6,000 miles of open ocean are each other’s closest relatives. Read the full story after the link. Typhleotris pauliani (top), a previously known species of Malagasy cave fish, is the closest relative of the newly discovered pigmented species (bottom). Photo: AMNH\J.Sparks  

    Researchers from the Museum and Louisiana State University have discovered that two groups of blind cave fishes now separated by about 6,000 miles of open ocean are each other’s closest relatives.
    Read the full story after the link.

    Typhleotris pauliani (top), a previously known species of Malagasy cave fish, is the closest relative of the newly discovered pigmented species (bottom). Photo: AMNH\J.Sparks
     

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    So if anyone noticed, life on earth...pretty terrifying/weird. Life developing on...
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    Fish frighten me, but this is cool.
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    Such far-out looking things!
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