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.

What's 10 feet long, 440 pounds, and armored like a tank? The arapaima, perhaps the most peculiar fish in the Amazon. is a denizen of the Amazon. It tops out at 440 pounds and 10 feet long. Making it ...

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), ...

The Arapaima fish, considered to be biggest fish and commercially important one at the Amazon Basin, went extinct in a number of local fishing communities, a group of researchers revealed in a study ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The Amazon and its tributaries are home to almost one tenth of the world’s freshwater fish biodiversity, 2500 species being recorded. The giant fish Arapaima gigas is one of the most emblematic of ...

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 ...