The red handfish is one of nature’s real treats. It’s a strange little bottom-dwelling fish that actually prefers to crawl along the sea floor rather than swimming, and it also happens to look ...

Swimming among the wreckage, diver Brad Turner noticed a flash of pink. Turner swore the animal was a handfish, but that couldn’t be possible — handfish are endangered and extremely rare.

More than 200 of the critically endangered red handfish are now "thriving" in a captive breeding program, which is in the safe hands of scientists at the University of Tasmania's Institute for ...

Conservation non-profit Environment Tasmania educated the public on an iconic local species, the critically endangered Red handfish, during three family snorkeling events run in partnership with ...

Picture: Elise Kaine Lilly Amos is a tour guide at Seahorse World in Beauty Point, which is the only place in the world with a public facing display of one of the rarest fish- the red handfish.

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.

Hundreds of people gathered at Carlton Beach in Tasmania’s south today to protest the proposed expansion of commercial salmon ...