BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have successfully assembled the chromosomal-level genome of the critically endangered Ochetobius elongatus, a rare fish species from the Yangtze River. This marks the ...

Every year, these prehistoric fish journey some 2,000 miles from the East China Sea to their spawning grounds in the Yangtze River. Or, at least they used to. In recent years, this ancient ...

In the world of environmental mysteries, the sudden appearance of hundreds of dead fish in waterways can stir public curiosity and concern. Recently, Kota Kinabalu witnessed such an occurrence ...

Native to China’s Yangtze River, the Chinese paddlefish was thought by many to be the world’s largest freshwater fish, with reports of individuals reaching a mind-boggling 23 feet in length ...

Cochran showed WLOX a bend in the bayou that still contained large amounts of dead fish caught in the saltgrass. He said the numbers were 10 times that last week. “You see all that white over there?

The Yangtze basin provides about half of all the fish eaten in China, and two-thirds of the rice. Industries and farming there contribute as much as 40% of China's whole economy. This vast river – the ...