Strange array of creatures lies under Alabama
KATHERINE BOUMA
News staff writer
Beneath Alabama are creatures as strange and unexamined as any on Earth, animals living with no known source of food - blind and nearly invisible fish, shrimp, crayfish and salamanders.
Alabama has more caves than any other state. And scientists believe those subterranean ecosystems cradle the nation's greatest diversity of groundwater creatures.
But they know little beyond that. Life underground is an area that has been, until now, largely ignored by biologists. [...]
Anyway, it's actually a pretty neat article about something that has always fascinated me. And let's face it--gives me the heebie-jeebies. I mean, if all those critters are down there, you figure it's probably just crawling with CHUDs, too! Eeeyoo-IGGLY!
Posted by Terry Oglesby at September 15, 2006 08:47 AM