Paleontologists have discovered a newly identified fish species in Australia so well-preserved that they could determine its last meal — dating back up to 16 million years to the Miocene Epoch.

Osmeriformes is a broad order of fish that includes various smelt species found worldwide, both in freshwater and marine environments. Smelt are relatively common across the U.S., particularly in ...

The boxer pupfish are believed to be extinct in the wild Eggs from a rare Mexican fish species believed to be extinct in the wild have successfully hatched at Bristol Zoological Society.

Researchers have rediscovered a rare fish species presumed to be extinct after it was not seen for more than eight decades. The last sighting of the Chel snakehead, or Channa amphibeus ...

The agency has landed on pompano, a fish endemic in Australia, found in warmer northern waters from about Yamba in New South Wales to Exmouth in Western Australia. "Similar species are grown ...

Jonathan Armbruster, professor and curator of fishes in Auburn University's College of Sciences and Mathematics (COSAM), has led an effort to give a long-overlooked species its scientific name.