NEWPORT, Ky. -- It’s just past 2 p.m., and four enormous shadowy figures lie in wait just below the surface of the water in Newport Aquarium’s Amazon Exhibit. Feeding commences. While the tank is ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

They're growing and learning their targets during daily training and soon they will venture off to the big tank. Only 9 inches long when they arrived two years ago at the Milwaukee County Zoo, two ...

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.

Recently, while visiting the Vancouver Aquarium, I became aware of the existence of a very large fish. This fish is inappropriately large. The arapaima, pirarucu, or paiche (Arapaima gigas) is a South ...

Diver Alex Reeson checks on the Arapaima or Pirarucu fishes in the tropical section of Europe's biggest freshwater aquarium Aquatis, due to open October 21, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Reuters ...

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 ...

Like youngsters leaving home on the first day of kindergarten, the Milwaukee County Zoo's two arapaima fish needed a bit of coaxing. Though arapaima are among the world's largest freshwater fish and ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Every animal living at Shedd Aquarium has a story, whether they were rehabilitated after a major injury or born as part of a conservation breeding program. Sprinkled throughout the ...

About 50 protected fish that were confiscated from O’Hare Airport in August are now rehabilitating in their new homes at the Shedd Aquarium. The 102 juvenile arapaima were confiscated from O’Hare ...