Harken to the fish
25 May 2025 at 14:48

From βMeghalayaβs new cave-dwelling fish adapts to streams overgroundβ, The Hindu, May 25, 2025:
An underground cave in Meghalaya, in focus for a conflict over a Shivalinga-like stone formation, has yielded a new-to-science fish that adapts to streams overground.
A team of zoologists, led by Kangkan Sarma of Gauhati Universityβs Department of Zoology, has recorded Schistura densiclava as a new species of troglophile loach from Krem Mawjymbuin in the Stateβs East Khasi Hills district.
This is amusing yet sobering: while people are fighting about which god a rock looks like, there are fish millennia older weβre just realising we didnβt know of, and which are gracefully adapting in new ways to a world in unprecedented flux.