Everyone knows the tiger, the panda, the blue whale, but what about the other five to thirty million species estimated to inhabit our Earth? Many of these marvelous, stunning, and rare species have ...

Dr. Donald Stewart examines an arapaima skeleton. The following is a press release from SUNY ESF: A professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) in Syracuse, N.Y., has put ...

Measuring 10 feet (3 meters) long and weighing in at more than 400 pounds (180 kilograms), it's hard to imagine that the arapaima, the largest fish in the Amazon River basin, could ever go missing.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The largest freshwater fish in South America, arapaima (Arapaima gigas) can grow to over 10 feet ...

This keystone species of the Amazon River ecosystem are a fearsome predator with many names. Mike Bock Reaching up to 10 feet (3 meters) long and weighing 440 pounds (200 kilograms), arapaima are the ...

Scientists who studied why the scales of a huge Amazonian fish, which lives piranha-infested waters, are some of the toughest in the world hope their work could help to create armor. The outer layer ...

It's a matchup worthy of a late-night cable movie: put a school of starving piranha and a 300-pound fish together, and who comes out the winner? The surprising answer -- given the notorious guillotine ...

This is the shocking moment a giant arapaima fish leapt from a tank and startled a feeder. The woman held a small fish above the aquarium, where two huge fish with armor-like scales waited for her to ...