Usually, you imagine fish swimming near waterfalls, but when catfish were found climbing one, scientists had to reconsider ...

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Thousands of orange-and-black bumblebee catfish were filmed scaling a 13-foot waterfall on Brazil's Aquidauana River — a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scaling 13-foot vertical waterfalls is a survival requirement for the bumblebee catfish. The 3.5-inch length of Rhyacoglanis ...

There are plenty of species that we know exist, but the finer points of their day-to-day lives, breeding behavior, and ecology have not been extensively studied. In the Paraguay River basin in Brazil, ...

In a river near a police department in southern Brazil, thousands of catfish amassed at the base of a waterfall and began to climb. The unusual fish gathering caught the attention of police officers — ...

In November 2024, members of Brazil’s environmental military police and scientists observed a “massive aggregation” of small catfish making their way up waterfalls in Brazil. These first-of-their-kind ...

Video captured by military police in Brazil captured a new skill exhibited by bumblebee catfish. The video showed the fish swimming up a small waterfall, similar to salmon during spawning season.

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...