Found in Costa Rica “false eagle” living in mud

In the humid and muddy soil of the tropical forest of a natural reserve in Costa Rica lives a creature never before registered by science: Ophisternon berlini, a species of fish that, by its characteristics, looks like a worm; it is the third known worldwide that lives permanently in the mud, and not in the water. Jairo Arroyave, researcher at the National Fish Collection of the Institute of Biology (IB) of UNAM, explained that it is a new speci…

In Costa Rica, a “false eagle” was recently discovered, a new species of fish that attracts much attention because it does not live in the water, but in the mud. Its name is Ophisternon berlini and is found in the humid and muddy soil of the tropical forest of a nature reserve called “Las Brisas”. This specimen lives underground, in absolute darkness, and has special adaptations for that environment, such as dwarfism, lack of pigmentation (it is…