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 ...

Conservation efforts in the Brazilian Amazon have brought a giant fish called the arapaima back from the verge of extinction, National Geographic reported. A decade ago, the arapaima, which can grow ...

A new species of a giant air-breathing fish known scientifically as an arapaima leptosome has been discovered by scientists from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, N.Y.

A keystone species of the Amazon River ecosystem, the arapaima is a powerful predator known by many names. Mike Bock Reaching up to 10 feet (3 meters) long and weighing 440 pounds (200 kilograms), ...

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 ...

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Helen Keller The Tactical Bassin' fishing channel just released a long-form, documentary-style movie about a Guyana fishing adventure catching ...

SHAH ALAM: A post-mortem examination of the three giant arapaima that died after being caught in Masjid Tanah, Malacca, last Friday (Oct 13) will be done soon. It was understood that the invasive fish ...

Dr. Donald J. Stewart, an ESF professor who recently discovered a new species of the giant Arapaima fishes native to South America, will present a lecture March 26 about conservation efforts for these ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In February, Florida officials identified the body of an arapaima (Arapaima gigas) that had washed ashore from the Caloosahatchee River. An expert ...