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Is There a Lost Species?
The last time anyone saw a live blanco blind salamander, it was near a natural spring that connects to a huge underground world of watery caverns and lakes. The edwards oquifer is one of the most biodiverse oquifers in the world, right in the middle of texas. There are blind catfish, countless tiny invertebrates, a lot of creatures which never needed to evolve eyes in the perpetual darkness. But despite how huge this Oquifer is, most of it is pretty hard to access - especially when moving through swiss cheese-sized sediment layers. And we think there may be an even bigger question: How do species go missing?