By Liz Kimbrough Scientists and Indigenous community members documented 27 new-to-science species in Peru’s Alto Mayo region, including four new mammals and a bizarre “blob-headed” fish that was ...

A scientific expedition to Peru has yielded a treasure trove of 27 new species, including an amphibious mouse, a “blob-headed” fish, and other zoological oddities. “Discovering so many new ...

Narrator: This is David Stein, a deep-sea-fish biologist who was lucky enough to dissect 19 blobfishes in the 1970s. Blobfish look blobby because they are full of water. Under their skin ...

The "blob-headed" fish that was found is "new to science" and is a type of armoured catfish, the report says. The scientists had never seen a fish with an "enlarged blob-like head" before and the ...