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Patrick Pester

'Demon cavefish' discovered under WWII chemical weapons facility in Alabama

An underwater photo looking down on the head of a demon cavefish.

"Demon cavefish" have been discovered lurking in caverns beneath a contaminated U.S. Army base in Alabama, a new study has found.

Biologists have named the pale, eyeless creatures Demogorgonichthys arcanus, after the monstrous Demogorgons from Netflix's "Stranger Things" and the underworld demon of Greek mythology from which the Demogorgon name derives. They are likely among the rarest fishes in the world.

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