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Get in touch. It is contact at stuff to blow your mind.com. Let's see. Rob, I think I'm going to kick things off here

with this message from Chris in response to our series on Cave Biology. All right, let's have it.

Chris says, hi, Robert Joe and JJ. Really enjoyed the first episode of the Hypogean world and the discussion about the potential for the adaptations that selected for sightlessness.

And the fact that the one fish you had described does technically still have eyes during development, but then they lose them.

Did not realize this. Well,

the first thing I see when I opened my browser this morning is a suggested story on none

other than Blind Cave Salamanders coming to the surface. So the article that Chris links here is

from Gizmodo from March 13th, 202424 by Isaac Schultz, and it is called

Scientists Caughts Blind Cave Salamanders Sneaking to Earth's Surface.

So here's the gist of the story.

This concerns recently published research about the own, the cave-adapted salamander from the Dynaric karst of Europe, which we talked about

in one of the later parts of the cave series. So it's possible that when Chris sent this email,

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