Rare, eyeless fish found in Iraqi underground river @TheNationalUAEchannel
Rare, eyeless fish found in Iraqi underground river  @TheNationalUAEchannel
Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A strange species has been found lurking 500 metres beneath Iraq’s desert.

Authorities discovered rare eyeless fish living in total darkness in an underground river system in Anbar province, one of the few subterranean aquatic systems of its kind in the Middle East.
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Rare, eyeless fish found in Iraqi underground river

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