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Freshwater Fish Face Growing Extinction Threat

Many of Australia's unique freshwater fish species are edging closer to extinction, with new research warning that the nation ...
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Rediscovering the coelacanth, the 400 million-year-old prehistoric fish we thought went extinct

Scientists have long known that coelacanths once swam Earth’s seas. Fossilized remains helped experts date the supposedly extinct fish species back 66 million years, to the Late Cretaceous period. But ...
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Researchers Searching For an Extinct Fish in South Africa Found a New Species Instead

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 ...
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Scientists Went Looking For an Extinct Fish in South Africa —They Found a Species New to Science

A research team traveled to South Africa's Umzimkhulu River in 2017 with a specific mission: find surviving pockets of the Maluti redfin minnow, a species declared extinct after introduced trout wiped ...
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In 1938, a South African fisherman hauled up a fish that scientists believed had been extinct for 65 million years — the coelacanth, a deep-water species that had simply been ...

Preserved coelacanth specimen at the Natural History Museum in Vienna. Photo by Alberto Fernandez Fernandez, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The coelacanth story is often told as if a fossil came ...