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‘Large'-eyed creature found in murky water of shrinking pond. It's a new species
On a floodplain in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sat a shrinking pond, doomed to eventually dry up. Inside its murky waters swam a scaly blue creature with "large" yellow eyes. Something about ...
Deep-water fish with ‘slender snout' and ‘compressed body' is a new species
Since 1984, five specimens of the new species have been found in the waters of Vanuatu and New Caledonia, according to a ...
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Meet the Scientist Who Discovered a New Genus of Curious Catfish Hiding in Colombia’s Most Endangered River
Museum ichthyologist Cristhian Conde-Saldaña uses evolutionary genetics to study freshwater fishes and document at-risk ...