A newly discovered fossil fish named Megamastax amblyodus is the largest vertebrate known in the Silurian fossil record, says a group of paleontologists...
Several fossil specimens of a Cambrian fish called Metaspriggina walcotti recently discovered in Canada shed new light on the development of the earliest...
Ichthyologists from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and the University of Kentucky have announced the discovery of a new eyeless cavefish in...
Marine biologists have described two new species of coral reef fish from the waters off Curaçao, southern Caribbean.
The Spot-tail golden bass (Liopropoma...
Scientists led by Dr Yann Guiguen from the French National Institute for Agricultural Research have successfully sequenced the genome of the rainbow trout,...
Petrocephalus boboto and Petrocephalus arnegardi, two new species of weakly electric fish, have been described from the Congo River.
Petrocephalus boboto...
A multinational group of biologists has described a new species of sweeper from the waters of the Indian Ocean.
Pempheris flavicycla marisrubri, Ras Mohammed,...
Biologists, reporting in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, have identified more than 180 species of biofluorescent fishes. Their study shows that biofluorescence...
Every year, hundreds of new dinosaurs, prehistoric marine reptiles and fishes are discovered, and among them are always a few really weird or beautiful...
Every year, hundreds of new dinosaurs, prehistoric marine reptiles and fishes are discovered, and among them are always a few really weird or beautiful...
Prof Donald Stewart from Department of Environmental and Forest Biology at State University of New York has described a new species of arapaima from the...
A newly discovered fossil of an early ray-finned fish, named Saurichthys curionii, from the Middle Triassic of Switzerland reveals a previously unknown...
Biologists from Canada, the United States, Colombia and Guyana have described a new species and genus of electric knifefish from South America.
Akawaio...
A team of paleontologists from China, the United States and Sweden has found a well-preserved fossil of ancient fish that lived in what is now China about...
Scientists have reported the discovery of two new species of toothed electric knifefishes that live under rafts of unrooted grasses and water hyacinth...
A study by entomologists from Bulgaria and Russia provides new interesting information on the life habits and the distribution of the giant water bug Lethocerus...
New research reported in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society shows that the previously known but misclassified small predatory fish Fouldenia...
Biologists reporting in the open-access journal Zookeys have identified a diminutive new catfish species in the waters of Rio Rio Paraíba do Sul basin,...
