With 84 species currently described, Characidium may be the most diverse fish genus known to science. This is the conclusion reached by Brazilian scientists after analyzing more than 4,400 ...

NBFGR researchers discover new Congrid eel species off Thoothukudi coast, named tamilicum after Tamil language, with unique ...

Scientists in China have discovered a rare golden scaleless cave fish, offering new insights into how species adapt to ...

The water clarity allows you to look into the water and see the stony bottom, and a small, striped fish darting between the ...

“This further suggests that most cave fishes may not have lived in cave ecosystems for more than a few million years,” write ...

Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 61, No. 2 (Apr. - Sep., 1909), pp. 406-408 (3 pages) ...

It’s a highly enigmatic tiny “fish” from a remote location close ... Our paper describes a new species of the genus Palaeospondylus, only the second known. Remarkably, for the last 135 ...

This is the first time a fish species has been named using the pinyin "Beijing" globally, according to a report released by the Beijing Daily on Thursday. The Beijing loach is about 5 centimeters ...

Researchers said these findings underscore the delicate relationship between Yunnanilus fish and their environments. They advocated for “species-specific conservation strategies” that protect these ...