{"id":765409,"date":"2026-07-16T02:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/765409\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T02:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:09:07","slug":"uah-scientists-discover-new-fish-species-beneath-redstone-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/765409\/","title":{"rendered":"UAH scientists discover new fish species beneath Redstone Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waff.com\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WAFF<\/a>) &#8211; Scientists discovered a new species of fish living below Redstone Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Matthew Niemiller of UAH and his colleagues found the fish during a routine survey of Bobcat Cave in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They said the fish looked different than the Southern Cavefish that inhabit the cave, according to WAFF 48\u2019s partners at the Redstone Rocket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Niemiller named the new species the \u201cDemon Cavefish,\u201d whose scientific name was inspired by the creatures on the TV show \u201cStranger Things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@waff48news\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@waff48news\">Click Here to Subscribe on YouTube:<\/a> Watch the latest WAFF 48 news, sports &amp; weather videos on our YouTube channel!<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WAFF. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) &#8211; Scientists discovered a new species of fish living below Redstone Arsenal. Matthew Niemiller of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[327205,327209,327077,18211,187821,327207,81396,327206,79,327208,327204,201],"class_list":["post-765409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-bobcat-cave","tag-cavefish","tag-demon-cavefish","tag-fish","tag-fish-species","tag-matthew-niemiller","tag-redstone-arsenal","tag-redstone-rocket","tag-science","tag-southern-cavefish","tag-uah","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}