Researchers are educating fishermen and residents of Torres Strait about climbing perch to prevent the transport of the fish to mainland Australia. Climbing perch, an invasive freshwater fish that can ...

A terrifying breed of fish could migrate to Australia. The climbing perch of Papua New Guinea is moving south toward Australia and has many researchers questioning what its impact will be "down under.

Meet Anabas testudineus, the climbing perch. This fish thrives in South and Southeast Asia. It uses a special organ to breathe air. The fish walks on land using its fins and tail. It moves between ...

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Snakehead fish, native to tropical Africa and Asia, have an appetite for blood and can grow to a metre long, The Cairns Postsaid today. The fish are a declared pest in Queensland (as a precautionary ...

THE aquarium of the Zoological Society's Gardens in Regent's Park has lately received a contribution of five specimens of the “Climbing Perch” (Anabas scandens). They were very kindly obtained for me ...