They did it by removing lenses from the eyes of their sighted cousins, then implanting the lenses in the eyes of young blind cave fish.
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A study in 2014 suggests that the lateral line system plays an important role in the behavior of Mexican blind cave fish ( Astyanax mexicanus ).
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Which brings us back to blind cave fish : They're a few inches long and a pale yellowish-white or pinkish-white color.
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In 2016 it was reported that the waterfall climbing cave fish walks with a tetrapod-like diagonal-couplets pelvic girdle attached to the vertebral column.
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The state park offers tours of caverns with illuminated limestone formations estimated to be 260 million years old, blind cave fish, and an underground pool.
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At least five species of cave fish are endemic to Thailand, says Smart, and two new species have been tentatively identified at a cave in Phitsanulok.
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Now two University of Maryland researchers have figured how to bring atavisms back to life _ so to speak _ in blind cave fish, by making them grow eyes.
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Gruelling effort, and no small amount of danger, was required to recover the blind cave fish from their otherworldly habitat, hundreds of feet beneath the Mexican desert.
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For example, blind cave fish create disturbances in the water and use distortions of this self-generated field to complete spatial tasks, such as avoiding surrounding obstacles.
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"Thailand has over 10 per cent of the world's known species of cave fish, and we hope to find some more, " he says.
