A Blind Fish Found in an Unexpected Place

                                                                                    Tennessee Aquarium news release

Southern Cavefish (Typhlichthys subterraneus)          (Photo: Tennessee Aquarium)

  In late summer of 2015, biologist Dr. Kirk Zigler was up to his knees in the bone-cold water of a Northwest Georgia cave when he encountered a creature as bizarre as it was completely unexpected. For months, Zigler and one of his students at Sewanee: The University of the South had been surveying the species living in the region's vast network of caves. They were looking for everything from spiders to salamanders to beetles, but the last thing Zigler expected to see swimming past his boots in Catoosa County's Crane Cave was a Southern Cavefish (Typhlichthys subterraneus).

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