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This tiny African fish climbs a 50-foot waterfall in the Congo

When Alex Honnold free-climbed a 101-story skyscraper in Taipei, the world cheered. But deep in the upper Congo River Basin, ...
Scientific American

See these ziti-sized fish scale a 50-foot waterfall

The world cheered when Alex Honnold free-climbed a 101-story skyscraper in Taipei. Gather now, fickle public, to applaud the new free-climbing champion: the shellear, a fish that is about the size of ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Watch These Rock-Climbing Fish Scale a 50-Foot Waterfall in the Congo Basin, the First Known Evidence of This Behavior in Africa

The tiny fish, called shellears, use microscopic hook-like growths on their fins to ascend—and they take a lot of breaks. The ...

Thousands of small fish defy gravity to climb Congo waterfall

By Marta Serafinko April 7 (Reuters) - A species of small fish has been observed by the thousands climbing a vertical ...

Tiny African fish caught climbing to the top of a 50-foot waterfall

For over half a century, people in Central Africa have told tales of the fish seen climbing waterfalls, but these claims have ...
Lexington Herald Leader

‘Large’-eyed river creature baffled experts — until now. See the new species

Scientists found a “large”-eyed river creature in the Republic of the Congo, debated its identification then discovered it was a new species. Screengrab from YouTube video shared by Christian Mpea In ...