China listed the paddlefish as a protected species in 1989. Sightings of the fish continued in the 1990s, but in 1995 the last young individual was seen in the wild. In 2003, an adult Chinese ...

A new species of spined loach, officially named the Cobitis beijingensis, has been discovered in the Beijing area for the first time in over 40 years. This is the first time a fish species has ...