The Northland mudfish has completed a remarkable victory in Fish of the Year 2026, having first taken the lead with less than 24 hours left to run. It takes the crown from the blobfish, whose viral ...

The Northland mudfish may be New Zealand’s Fish of the Year, but it won’t be replacing the Taniwha as the name of the Northland rugby team. The tiny, mud-dwelling fish from Northland pulled off a last ...

The Northland Mudfish has been crowned Fish of the Year in the fifth annual Mountains to Sea Conservation Trust competition. Fifty hours out from today’s final announcement, it was sitting in fifth ...

A deeply unglamorous and rarely seen creature that spends most of its life in mud has pulled off a last-minute upset by winning the title of Fish of the Year. The Northland mudfish was not even in the ...

Even in the most hostile places on Earth, new research shows that organisms are able to survive and even thrive. A University of Cologne-led team published its findings on nematodes from the Atacama ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The recent research from Leiden University adds to decades of previous research at the Neumark-Nord archaeological site near Leipzig, Germany. Around ...

Rivers and canals are to Bangladesh what arteries are to the human body. The country is uniquely blessed with a vast, intricate capillary network of waterways, including rivers and canals. Yet its ...

March 16 (UPI) --An Indiana man who was asked to fill in for the local gravedigger in 1952 is now retiring after a record-breaking 73 years and 75 days on the job. Allen McCloskey, 92, got his start ...

A man digging a backyard swimming pool in France struck gold—literally. The discovery included five gold bars and a range of gold coins, all stored in plastic bags. Authorities traced the gold bars ...