Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Batman River loach. (Re:wild) Batman has returned - the Batman River loach, that is. The tiny freshwater fish was last seen by ...

A freshwater fish thought to be extinct was found this week in Turkish waters, nearly 50 years after it was last seen. The Batman River loach was last seen in the Batman and Ambar rivers in 1974.

Researchers in southeastern Turkiye continue their work for protection of a critically endangered fish unseen by human eyes for nearly 50 years. Turkish researchers Cuneyt Kaya, a biologist ...

Researchers in Turkey recently rediscovered the Batman River loach, a species that hadn’t been seen since 1974. There have been many prior unsuccessful attempts to find the species, leading to ...

Batman has returned — the Batman River loach, that is. The tiny freshwater fish was last seen by scientists in southeastern Turkey in 1974. The yellow-and-brown-striped loach, which grows to only ...