A Blind Fish Rode Up a Farm Borewell and Turned Out to Be New
A pale, eyeless earthworm eel pumped from farmland borewells in Bihar is the first fish ever recorded from the aquifer beneath the Indo-Gangetic Plain, and a genus wholly new to science.
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