It is not clear why Parakneria thysi climbs. Fish are known for their swimming skills. It seems absurd to think of fish functioning outside their aquatic environment, given how they effortlessly glide ...

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 ...

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 fish the size of a thick french fry shouldn’t be able to defy gravity. But in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, thousands of them do it at once - and researchers now have the evidence to prove ...

The species of goby fish, Sicyopterus stimpsoni, also known as the "inching climber," thrives in the waters off Hawaii, and the amazing physical feat it must perform to survive is no fish tale! To ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A tree-climbing species of fish has been filmed hopping along the water ...

Deep beneath the Amazon rain forest lives a cave-climbing fish—and scientists have captured it on film for the first time. A team exploring limestone caves near Tena, Ecuador (map), found the ...

New research from the Democratic Republic of Congo offers a behavioral and anatomical portrait of a species that can achieve surprising athletic... These rock-climbing fish can shimmy up a 50-foot ...

A fish the size of a thick french fry shouldn’t be able to defy gravity. But in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, thousands of them do it at once — and researchers now have the evidence to prove ...