Flea toads, dwarf pygmy goby fish and bumblebee bats are just a few examples of vertebrates that have shrunk through evolution, without losing any of their basic physical characteristics.

In one river, their nets caught a goby, a species of small freshwater fish that was a “creamy white” color, wrapped with “reddish-brown stripes” on its snout, according to the study.

Initially, researchers identified the fish as a known species of freshwater goby. “Gobies are small-sized fish that mostly inhabit saline and brackish waters,” the study said. But when the ...

They dropped their nets into the water and pulled out not a marine worm or an eel, but a goby fish — and it’s a new species. The long creature was not a worm or eel, but a type of goby fish.

An angler was recently caught using an invasive gobies as live bait while he fished for out-of-season smallmouth bass with too many lines, officials said. The angler was using live gobies to fish ...

Savage as it may seem, filial cannibalism makes perfect sense for animals such as sand gobies that invest time and energy in raising large numbers of offspring, says Ashley Chin-Baarstad ...