The blind fish that climbs the waterfall embodies the evolutionary history of the living being adapted from "From the sea to the land"

About 400 million years ago, it is thought that living creatures advanced from the ocean to the land by the advent of amphibians. Researchers are attracting the attention of researchers as "big blogging fishes walking in fins" discovered in Thailand about what creatures first decided "landing strategy" are.

Tetrapod-like pelvic girdle in a walking cavefish: Scientific Reports
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Blind fish that crawls on land holds clues to evolution - CBS News
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Researchers at the New Jersey Institute of Technology are Tham Susa caves in the Karst region in northern Thailand, blind fish "Cryptotora thamicola" with four distinctive fins in the fore and aft, evolved from fish to amphibians to the ground Discovered that it had the physical characteristics in the process of evolution of an organism advanced to the state,NatureI posted my thesis.


The state of announcement of "Physical features of Cryptotora thamicola" by researchers at the New Jersey Institute of Technology can be confirmed in the following movie.

Cryptotora thamicola - a cavefish with evolutionary implications - YouTube


Cryptotora thamicola lives in the dark cave in the northern part of Thailand.


Cryptotora thamicola collected in flowing water is ...


It is possible to climb the wall through which water flows.


Cryptotora thamicola, who lost sight in dark darkness, is a freshwater fish classified as a carp, with a length of about 3 cm.


The ecology has many mysteries as to how to take food and find partners in a severe water current without eye invisibility.


However, there are two big fins, two in front and behind, that stimulated the intellectual curiosity of the researchers.


Cryptotora thamicola can walk like an amphibian by using fins for dexterity.


Analysis of the body of Cryptotora thamicola revealed that it has enough skeleton, spine and muscle to walk.


Cryptotora thamicola with the structure of the body which is regarded as the same as the organism which advanced from the sea to the land by about 400 million years ago, as a valuable creature living in modern times, important for studying the evolutionary process of Paleozoic organisms It is expected to become a sample.