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Mystery #4Tier 2-3evolution / adaptation

Why did cave fish lose their eyes?

Deep in pitch-black caves live fish that are completely blind, and many have no eyes at all, just smooth skin where eyes should be. Yet their relatives in sunlit rivers see perfectly. Why would an animal lose something as useful as eyes?

A pale blind cave fish with no visible eyes.
Photo: David J. Stang · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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