Fierce and gigantic, if you ever see or come across an arapaima fish along the rainforest rivers of the Amazon, then you will ...

Florida is already in a battle with dangerous and invasive species like the Burmese python, green iguana and lionfish and now there's a new predator in the state called the arapaima, a fish that ...

A colossal freshwater fish that can reach up to 10 feet in length has mysteriously washed up on a shoreline in Florida. The arapaima is … ...

Reaching up to 10 feet (3 meters) long and weighing 440 pounds (200 kilograms), arapaima are the largest freshwater fish in South America—and an important species in the Amazon River ecosystem.

Giant freshwater fish are among the most endangered animals on Earth. But in the lush waterways of the Amazon, one leviathan is swimming against the current.. Meet the arapaima, a fish capable of ...

On a recent fishing trip to Guyana, Ty Kleeb caught a jaw-dropping specimen of one of the world's largest species of freshwater fish.

Plummeting fish stocks meant that arapaima fishing was banned for all but local communities in 1996. However, illegal fishing meant that numbers continued to fall. Campos-Silva has always been ...

Other possible contenders for biggest fish included the air-breathing arapaima, which dwells in South America’s Amazon Basin, and the wels catfish, Europe’s largest freshwater fish and a ...

Though arapaima are among the world's largest freshwater fish and can stretch out to as long as 10 feet, the fish were a bit hesitant to move from their small tanks into their new home in the ...