The rare fish was last spotted in Victoria, Australia in 1929 North Central CMA A fish previously declared extinct has been released back into the wild in Australia. The olive perchlet, a small ...

A tiny fish long feared lost has resurfaced in Bolivia, offering a rare conservation success story amid widespread habitat ...

This 2024 photo released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a Fish Lake Valley tui chub. (Nathan Hurner/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP) LAS VEGAS (AP) — Federal protections could soon ...

A giant fish in Asia’s Mekong River that scientists believed to be extinct has been spotted three times after almost 20 years, according to a new study. The “ghost’ fish,” a large salmon carp, is ...

For 162 million years, sturgeons have fended off everything they’ve faced. Now scientists are racing to save these living fossils. The white sturgeon is the largest freshwater fish in North America; ...

The ivory-billed woodpecker, along with 22 other species of birds, fish, mussels and other wildlife, is set to be declared extinct and removed from the endangered species list, US wildlife officials ...

Hundreds of endangered fish that were rescued from their habitat due to the Palisades Fire have returned home after being held for several months at two local aquariums. The endangered northern ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Is it time to add two more species to the ...

The Chel snakehead, also known as the Channa amphibeus, was rediscovered in the town of Kalimpong in West Bengal Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023.

The Mekong giant salmon carp, a huge fish native to Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand, was at one point thought to be extinct. However, in 2020, one of the four-foot-long, 60-pound megafish was hauled in ...