picture from newswise.com
On the right is Dr. Donald Stewart of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, who rediscovered a species of giant airbreathing catfish, Arapaima agassizii, but not in a river. Instead, the distinctive fish was found in the first monographs describing the Amazon river, from the early 1800s. The article in the scientific journal Copeia is here. It's a tidy conjunction of library research and field science, when something that can only be found in a few libraries is of use to scholars looking for fish in the field. The next step will be finding the species outside of the library.
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