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, ...

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.

The giant arapaima, the Amazon’s biggest fish, was under threat. Rolex Awards for Enterprise Laureate João Campos-Silva is engaging with local fishing communities to save it—and in doing so, setting ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new type of giant Amazonian fish — one for which only a single species was known for more than a century — has been discovered in Brazil, scientists say. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

A study into freshwater lake management along the Amazon’s most meandering river has demonstrated astounding benefits to local livelihoods in replenishing vitally important fish stocks — a source of ...