Join marine conservation scientist, author, and award-winning public science educator Dr. David Shiffman to learn all about these amazing animals.

The Division of Vertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) seeks an outstanding tenure-track Assistant Curator/Assistant Professor in either the Department of Ichthyology or M...

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Job Opening: Research Zoologist (Curator of Fishes), IS-0410-12 at National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.

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Learn how fish in the Democratic Republic of the Congo scale a near-vertical waterfall using microscopic hooks.

Shellear fish have certain anatomical traits making it possible for them to climb as well as swim. Pacifique Kiwele Mutambala

For over half a century, people in Central Africa have told tales of the fish seen climbing waterfalls, but these claims have never been officially confirmed. Now, these fish have finally been caught ...

Antique maps and other geological archives are at the heart of an increasingly ugly showdown between Belgium’s colonial museum and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Vast journeys, among world’s great wonders, found to be under threat as freshwater fish populations crash by 81%

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Hidden in a World War II bunker near New Orleans, Tulane stores more than 8 million preserved fish — and the collection is still growing.

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