Sinocyclocheilus xingrenensis, or the Xingren golden-lined fish, has a “golden yellow” body with a “slightly translucent white” dorsal fin and black gills, according to the study. Black markings dot ...

They were able to separate the new golden fish from other members of its genus – many of which also live in caves carved out within southwestern China ... center of the village, making it ...

Previous research suggested that golden-line fish moved into caves when China was drying up — so there was less water outside — towards the end of the Miocene epoch (23 million to 5.3 million ...

we hypothesize that the new species may be undergoing a gradual evolutionary process towards caves,” researchers concluded.

In caves in a south-central China village, a creature with large eyes shows evolution in action. Xiao M-Y, Wang J-J, Luo T, Zhou J-J, Xiao N, Zhou J (2025) Zoosystematics and Evolution In the ...