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 ...

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, ...

Assumptions that may seem self-evident are not always accurate when it comes to the evolution of vertebrate brains. Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have now demonstrated this by examining ...

The Lost River in southern Indiana will occasionally disappear for miles during dry weather as it descends beneath the soil, carving out subterranean caverns and meandering through the state’s karst ...

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Indiana has a rich biodiversity with thousands of species in unique habitats, but growth and development have changed some of those fragile ecosystems and threaten the wildlife they support. IndyStar ...