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 ...

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.

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 ...

Locals discovered three "giant" fish, suspected to be arapaima, floating dead on Truoc Dong Lake in Da Nang city.

(UPI) -- The natural body armor of the South American arapaima fish is so tough that it can withstand the piercingly fierce bite of a piranha without a problem. With its streamlined body and flat head ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Cameron has been holding a controller for about as long as he can remember, developing a special love for The Elder Scrolls and Halo at a young age. When he isn't playing virtual games, he can most ...

Like most other fish in the game, the Arapaima can only be caught during certain months and times of the day. Whether your island is set as being in the northern or southern hemisphere will determine ...