New Creature With 'Visible Internal Organs' Discovered By Scientists. It Looks Straight Out Of A Studio Ghibli Movie

New Creature With 'Visible Internal Organs' Discovered By Scientists. It Looks Straight Out Of A Studio Ghibli Movie

New Creature With 'Visible Internal Organs' Discovered By Scientists. It Looks Straight Out Of A Studio Ghibli Movie On a recent research expedition, scientists discovered a cave-dwelling creature in China, which was hiding in an underground river outlet near the small farming village of Xiaoganxi.  The new species, which is a type of cavefish known as a loach, is notable for its near-translucent appearance, which allows its internal organs to shine through.  Its body, which is “scaleless” and “lacks pigment,” gives it an overall “semi-transparent” look similar to that of a jellyfish.  According to the study, which was published in the scientific journal “Zoo Keys” on September 23, research was evenly divided among Min Shi, Yuan-Chao Chen, Xing-Jin Che, Wei Dao, Wen-Ming Liu, Deng-Shan Wang, Jun-Xing Yang, and Xiao-Ai Wang. The researchers named the new species Triplophysa baishuijiangensis , or Baishuijiang high-plateau loach, after the Baishuijiang National Aquatic Germplasm Resou…