The discovery of a golden scaleless fish in China is helping scientists understand how animals evolved to live in caves.

They were able to separate the new golden fish from other members of its genus – many of which also live in caves carved out within southwestern China’s karst landscapes – based on its DNA ...

The fish belong to a genus called Acrossocheilus, a small- to medium-sized species found across Laos, Vietnam and southern China. But when researchers collected specimens of this group from the ...

Although the ornamental carp are the official fish of Japan, koi were first cultivated in China. As a result, the Bentayga's interior color scheme takes a note, featuring an individual orange koi ...

Previous research suggested that golden-line fish moved into caves when China was drying up — so there was less water outside — towards the end of the Miocene epoch (23 million to 5.3 million ...