Most ocean fish are terrible parents. A few species guard their eggs on the seafloor ... noses up to a triangular shard of white plastic. What harm such plastic is causing is still unsettled ...

“These mosaics, adorned with animal figures and rare sea creatures like octopuses and various fish species ... right next to London’s iconic Shard building. Then, discover how archaeologists ...

Few individual animals have ever been more important to their species than 2323M — a red wolf, dubbed Airplane Ears by advocates for his prominent extremities, who spent his brief but fruitful life on ...

Researchers have rediscovered a rare fish species presumed to be extinct after it was not seen for more than eight decades.

Scientists discovered new fish species. These include a blob-headed catfish, a tiny pipehorse, and three pacu species.

In the arid mountains of northern Oman, rocky caves hold pools of water. Naturalists were exploring these subterranean lakes in the Al-Hoota cave in 1980 when they discovered a white, eyeless fish. It ...

A previously unidentified fish species has been named, and its origin has been traced to southern Taiwan following joint efforts between Taiwanese researchers and those at the Museum der Natur Hamburg ...

A critically endangered new species of killifish sampled from an ancient forest in Kenya in 2017 and 2018 has now been described. Nothobranchius sylvaticus, from the Latin meaning 'pertaining to the ...

This find is making fish-tory. A rare fish species thought to have gone extinct in the early 20th century was recorded three times in 2024 by researchers in India, according to a newly published ...

A new species of spined loach, officially named the Cobitis beijingensis, has been discovered in the Beijing area for the first time in over 40 years. This is the first time a fish species has ...

Scientists have identified 866 new species as part of the Ocean Census, a global mission to protect and accelerate the ...