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 ...

Researchers identified a new freshwater fish species in South Africa after years of genetic testing and analysis.

A search for a fish lost to extinction led to a brand-new species hiding in a South African river.

A dozen fish pulled from a South African river sparked years of debate before being confirmed as a new species.