Natural History Wanderings

Earth.com reported

For decades, anglers in the rivers of Georgia have been catching fish they couldn’t quite identify – fish that looked like redeye bass but just a little different. It turns out, those “off” fish weren’t just odd-looking redeyes. They were something else entirely.

Two new species of black bass – Bartram’s bass and Altamaha bass – have officially been added to the list, thanks to years of careful detective work by fish ecologists at the University of Georgia.

Read more  Two new species of bass fish discovered in a U.S. lake – Earth.com