A Tasmanian marine research project has handed "one of the world's rarest fish" a lifeline.More than 200 of the critically ...

A remarkable conservation effort is giving new hope to the critically endangered red handfish, with 232 hatchlings now ...

A rare "walking" handfish which is native only to Australia has been spotted for the first time in 22 years off the Tasmanian coast. The pink handfish was last sighted by a diver off Tasmania in ...

The Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies has run the largest captive breeding event ever for baby red handfish.

A captive breeding program conserving the critically endangered red handfish is celebrating the safe arrival of 232 ...

An extremely rare pink handfish has been spotted in Tasman Fracture Marine Park, a wild and remote part of Australian waters. The species, recently listed as endangered, was last spotted by a ...

These threats have taken a devastating toll on red handfish, and compounding their problems is a population boom of native ...

Researchers at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) have successfully bred 232 red handfish in captivity, ...

On the surface, it looks like any other bay near Hobart. But beneath the calm waters live a small population of one of the rarest and most endangered fish in the world: the red handfish.

After a 50-day incubation period during which they were cared for by their mothers, the freshly hatched youngsters will go through ‘handfish school’ before their eventual release into the wild.