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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

FORT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami/AP) — Florida is already in a battle with dangerous and invasive species like the Burmese python, green iguana and lionfish and now there's a new predator in the state called ...

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 ...

The 10-foot-long arapaima was quickly disappearing in Brazil until local communities stepped in to save it—and themselves. A close-up view of an arapaima from the Brazilian Amazon shows its unique ...

Mark Wilson of FOX 13 Tampa Bay framed it like a plot twist for anglers: for years, the only realistic way to tangle with an arapaima was to book an expensive trip to the Amazon River, then sweat your ...

Here's a question - if piranhas are so ferocious and will attack anything, why aren't they the only fish in the Amazon? Well, in some cases, it's because other fish possess bite-proof armor. The ...

One of the world's largest, most endangered, and most mysterious freshwater fish has yielded a new surprise: a likely new species—and possibly several more—have been lurking in the backwaters of the ...