(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's smallest species of eel-loach fish has been discovered by a Natural History Museum scientist and his colleague this month and is featured on the Museum's Species of the ...

Loaches are enjoyable additions to tropical freshwater aquariums. Typically, they are peaceful scavengers, spending time searching for food at the bottom. Many loach species thrive in schools, and ...

A freshwater fish thought to be extinct was found this week in Turkish waters, nearly 50 years after it was last seen. The Batman River loach was last seen in the Batman and Ambar rivers in 1974.

Researchers in Turkey recently rediscovered the Batman River loach, a species that hadn’t been seen since 1974. There have been many prior unsuccessful attempts to find the species, leading to ...

Most people, including anglers, have never heard of the spined loach, Cobitis taenia, but the fish is a rare survivor of a time when the English Channel was a river. This shy and largely nocturnal ...

Fishkeeping is a popular hobby enjoyed by over 12 million American households. An aquarium filled with colorful freshwater fish can add natural beauty to your home and help you learn more about marine ...

Native to the Gila River basin, the loach minnow and spikedace are adapted to the beautiful yet vulnerable ecology of southwestern desert rivers. These rare, pint-sized fish are just two of many river ...

Scientists working on the Search For The Lost Fishes project have spotted the freshwater Batman River loach, which has not been seen since 1974 A freshwater fish that scientists thought was extinct ...

A hobby diver has made the 'surprise' discovery of Europe's first cave fish in a cold and labyrinth-like cave in southern Germany. Noticing that the fish were 'strange looking' to him, diver Joachim ...