Glowing with amber-orange hues and fitted with lips only a mother could love, several rare sucker fish sit in jars of ethanol at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences.
Scientists first collected this species in 1961, yet it remained nameless for over 60 years, becoming rarer and rarer in its natural habitat.
That all changed in April, when scientists from the Raleigh museum formally described the fish, meaning they published a scientific paper to prove it’s distinct from other closely related species and gave it a Latin name…