Ever heard of a fish that can climb trees? Sounds like something out of a tall tale, right? But nope—this one’s 100% real. Say hello to the climbing perch (scientific name: Anabas testudineus), a ...
Fish are known for their swimming skills. It seems absurd to think of fish functioning outside their aquatic environment, ...
Shellear fish have certain anatomical traits making it possible for them to climb as well as swim. (Pacifique Kiwele Mutambala) Seventeen years ago, Auguste Chocha Manda, a researcher at the ...
For decades, people in Central Africa told stories about the tiny fish that could somehow scale tall waterfalls. Most ...
The goby fish, particularly species like Sicyopterus stimpsoni, is one of nature’s most remarkable climbers. In fast-flowing rivers and steep tropical regions, some species of fish achieve an ...
A species of small fish has been observed by the thousands climbing a vertical waterfall 15 metres (50 feet) tall in the ...
Seventeen years ago, Auguste Chocha Manda, a researcher at the Université de Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo, traveled to the Luvilombo waterfall in the south of the country where he ...