On the morning of December 22nd, 1938, a young museum curator in East London, South Africa, found something on the deck of a ...

A team of scientists went looking for a minnow declared extinct. What they pulled from a South African river turned out to be something no one had ever documented - a small, colorful fish with a ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A fish species thought to be extinct has suddenly been found in a small pond in Bolivia. The rare seasonal killifish, ...

A fish species not recorded in the wild for more than 20 years was rediscovered in Bolivia, providing a boost for biodiversity. As published in the journal Nature Conservation, scientists discovered ...

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 ...

Researchers identified a new freshwater fish species in South Africa after years of genetic testing and analysis. Zoosystematics and Evolution Zoosystematics and Evolution A team of scientists went ...