Brisbane, Australia
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Along a nine-mile stretch of river between two waterfalls in the Australian rainforest lives a tiny fish that’s been there for millions of years, hiding between rocks along the riverbank by day and emerging at night to feed.
This is the only place in the world you’ll find the planet’s sole tropical cod –– a remnant of times past that is believed to have split from its closest southern relatives about 25-30 million years ago.
For all that time, the tiny cod swam undetected and undescribed by modern science until 1993 when two researchers –– Mark Kennard and Brad Pusey –– stumbled upon the fish in the Bloomfield River, along the northern…
