Why are cave-dwelling eels growing skin over their left eyes? It may be evolution in action.

Thursday, May 25, 2023 - 11:33 in Biology & Nature

These "greedy" eels likely retreated into the gloomy depths of underwater caves in search of tasty crustaceans and are adapting to the darkness by going blind, one eye at a time.

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