Scientists Focus on Blind Crayfish in Search for Cave Ecology Answers

By Chris Bryant

A state wildlife grant is providing UA researchers funding to search for cave crayfish – eyeless, small, white, almost transparent animals – within 10 Alabama caves.

These long-antennaed creatures spend their lives underground and have diets that, seemingly, are mud-centered. Some have contended a species of cave crayfish is among the Earth’s longest living organisms, with a possible life span of well over 150 years.

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