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Two newly discovered Amazon fishes may already be headed for extinction. When Murilo Pastana at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC set out with a group of colleagues to search for fish in less explored regions of the Amazon River basin, he didn’t know what they would find. A few days into their 2015 expedition, Pastana pulled a net from the water and was surprised to see small, vibrant orange fish in the plastic netting. The animal’s [...]

Two newly discovered species of Amazonian fish are facing imminent extinction due to deforestation, warns a new study. Both fish - commonly referred to as South American darters - could disappear if the Brazilian government does not take immediate action, say scientists. They were found in the Amazon rainforest, roughly 25 miles north of the Brazilian city of Apuí, during an expedition between 2015 and 2016. Unfortunately, the Apuí region has the second-highest [...]

Two newly discovered species of Amazonian fish are facing imminent extinction due to deforestation, warns a new study. Both fish - commonly referred to as South American darters - could disappear if the Brazilian government does not take immediate action, say scientists. They were found in the Amazon rainforest, roughly 25 miles north of the Brazilian city of Apuí, during an expedition between 2015 and 2016. Unfortunately, the Apuí region has the second-highest [...]

Two new electric eel species have been identified in the Amazon basin, including one fish with a record-breaking shock, scientists say. Researchers had previously identified only one species of electric eel in more than 250 years of studying the creatures that lurk in South American waters and stun their prey with electric discharges. However, the new genetic and ecological analysis, published Tuesday in the peer-reviewed Nature Communications, identifies a total of three unique [...]