One of the study’s authors named the two new species, Etheostoma kimberlae and Etheostoma michellae, after his daughter, ...

Hidden between the grains, they found two “rare” creatures — and rediscovered a species not seen in 22 years. A team of researchers visited Mae Chaem River in December as part of an “extensive” region ...

A team of scientists has created a new guide to advance standards for collecting and cataloging DNA from marine species, ...

Scientists discovered a new forest killifish in Kenya, revealing both evolutionary and tectonic history—but its habitat is ...

The specimens were the bycatch of a fishing vessel in the South China Sea, which researchers later bought to study.

Near a village in northeastern India, a “dwarf”-like creature with a “large” mouth swam through the river — or tried to, at ...

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“Baseball, sex, fish ... one species back,” Köck says. “We can change the course of the planet. We can turn the wheel around and make it a place where kids can go to swim in a river ...

The species were discovered across the Ryuku Archipelago in southwestern Japan, researchers said. Photo by S. Tsuchiya via Unsplash Scattered across a chain of subtropical islands in southwestern ...

Scattered across a chain of subtropical islands in southwestern Japan, buried under rocks, or deep within the region’s humid soil, researchers discovered seven new species with segmented bodies ...