This giant blindfish is 30 centimeters long and was unexpectedly discovered in India's Meghalaya.

In our perception, cavefish are generally small, belonging to small fish species.

This is due to the growth environment of cavefish. Cavefish typically grow in dark rivers or caves with no sunlight.

These places are perpetually dark, without sunlight, which limits the growth of algae due to the lack of photosynthesis.

Even if algae can grow, the plants are relatively small, relying on fewer bottom-dwelling organisms that depend on algae growth, and fallen leaves from the surface cannot reach the underground dark rivers.

These reasons result in a scarcity of food in the underground dark rivers, and the fish in the water, in order to survive, must reduce their individual sizes,

Impression of small cavefish

According to reports from 'Hebei Youth Daily': In the Meghalaya Plateau in India, a research team came to a cave near the Meghalaya Plateau. In the cave, they unexpectedly discovered a giant cavefish named Chintia Hill. The giant cavefish was as long as 30 centimeters, surpassing all its congeners. Scientists initially thought that the underground water environment in the cave did not have the conditions to produce large fish, firstly, lack of light, unfavorable for foraging, secondly, the scarcity of food. However, the existence of this giant cavefish undoubtedly overturned the traditional scientific cognition,

Giant cavefish

Cavefish are distributed widely around the world, including America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

The first discovery was in 1842, recorded in the United States as a sedentary cavefish – cave loach.

Since 1976, a blindfish was first reported in Yunnan's Jianwei caves, and new blindfish have been discovered consecutively.