Last month, during a visit to Jaycee Park in Cape Coral, Florida, Leah Getts’s son spotted a massive dead fish floating in the Caloosahatchee River. “It was bigger than my 7-year-old, who’s not a ...

As the world’s largest freshwater fish, the arapaima, is being targeted by poachers in Brazil, while members of Indigenous communities are doing their best to protect it. The Paumari Indigenous ...

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A villager from the Rumao Island community pulls into his canoe an arapaima or pirarucu, the largest freshwater fish species in South America and one of the largest in the world, while fishing in a ...

A 10-foot Amazon predator releases a milky fluid from its head while its babies swarm around it, and that’s only the beginning of the arapaima’s strange survival toolkit. One of the world’s largest ...

Capable of growing more than 3 metres in length and 200kg in weight, the arapaima is a freshwater giant with a fiery reputation. If threatened, it may launch itself in defence, and with a rock-hard ...

How can one tell whether an arapaima is a male or a female? This is important information for the management of fish farms. However, the subtle differences in tone of the red scales are not enough to ...

What's 10 feet long, 440 pounds, and armored like a tank? The arapaima, perhaps the most peculiar fish in the Amazon. is a denizen of the Amazon. It tops out at 440 pounds and 10 feet long. Making it ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. 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 ...

The arapaima, a giant species of fish that lurks in the Amazon river, may be threatened by overfishing. Studies reveal that errors in the classification of the species could mean that it is being ...