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# Harken to the fish
- URL: https://balaustine.mymagic.page/harken-to-the-fish/
- Published: 2025-05-25T16:09:46.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-23T11:26:47.000Z
- Author: VM
- Tags: Op-eds, Krem Mawjymbuin, Meghalaya, Schistura densiclava, #Migrated-1787484114599, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-23 11:22

From ['Meghalaya’s new cave-dwelling fish adapts to streams overground'](https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/meghalaya/meghalayas-new-cave-dwelling-fish-adapts-to-streams-overground/article69616871.ece?ref=balaustine.mymagic.page), *The Hindu*, May 25, 2025:

> An underground cave in Meghalaya, in focus for a conflict over a Shivalinga-like stone formation, has yielded a new-to-science fish that adapts to streams overground.  
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> A team of zoologists, led by Kangkan Sarma of Gauhati University’s Department of Zoology, has recorded *Schistura densiclava* as a new species of troglophile loach from Krem Mawjymbuin in the State’s East Khasi Hills district.

This is amusing yet sobering: while people are fighting about which god a rock looks like, there are fish millennia older we’re just realising we didn’t know of, and which are gracefully adapting in new ways to a world in unprecedented flux.