They were looking for a specific group of fish known as Chinese karst loaches ... a “narrow” mouth and whisker-like barbels but no eyes. Photos show the “semi-translucent and pale pink ...

The fish’s eyes are “absent” from the outside, its eye sockets instead “filled with fatty tissue,” adapted to its subterranean environment, according to the study. When freshly caught ...

The lake has eyes! Tourists in southwestern China got a bit of a fright when they thought they spotted a human face floating through a lake. Turns out the spooky sight was actually a fish with ...

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 ...

With their mouths agape and shoe-button eyes wobbling, the infant fish entertain visitors as they often appear to meet the gaze of the spectators. “When you feed them, they start swimming as if ...

with no eyes and a blood-red body. The researchers studied the genus Horaglanis of catfish -- a diverse group of ray-finned fish. The tiny members of this genus, only about three centimetres in ...