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 ...

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.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conservation efforts in the Brazilian Amazon have brought a giant fish called the arapaima back from the verge of extinction, ...

Researchers working in the murky waters of the Amazon River in Brazil have discovered a new species of giant fish. The arapaima is an air-breathing fish that ranges between six and seven feet in ...

The Giant Arapaima fish, a large, commercially-important species in the Amazon Basin, is now locally extinct in many regions around the area, according to biologists. Bioeconomic theory is often used ...

Researchers have discovered a new species of fish that breathes air and has evolved to grow extra strong scaly skin that can withstand piranha bites. The fish is a new species of arapaima, a giant ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Measuring 10 feet (3 meters) long and weighing in at more than 400 pounds (180 kilograms), it's ...