A critically endangered new species of killifish sampled from an ancient forest in Kenya in 2017 and 2018 has been described ...

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The Xingren golden-lined fish lives only in caves near Xingren City, China, and the species is seemingly in the middle of ...

Near an island in the South Pacific Ocean, a bright red sea creature with “canine-like” teeth swam around the coral reef.

The exhaustive research has been conducted as part of the Nippon Foundation Nekton Ocean Census. Launched in April 2023, the ...

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

An ongoing Paleontological Resource Inventory discovered the new species, called Clavusodens mcginnisi, while collecting ...

The ocean covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but scientists say we have barely scratched the surface of what lives in ...

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Passing scientists noticed the lurking animal — and discovered a new species. A team of researchers spent over 20 years ...

In the arid mountains of northern Oman, rocky caves hold pools of water.