Native to the Gila River basin, the loach minnow and spikedace are adapted to the beautiful yet vulnerable ecology of southwestern desert rivers. These rare, pint-sized fish are just two of many river ...

Researchers visited the Chaobaihe River in the outskirts of Beijing several times in 2024 to search for a group of fish ... a new species: Cobitis beijingensis, or the Beijing spined loach.