Growing up, I immersed myself in stories of outdoor writers traveling the globe, chasing massive and exotic species to fuel my love of fishing and adventure. It led me to a three-decade-plus career as ...

Kelly visits Jurassic Living Jewels in Southwest Florida to fish for massive prehistoric arapaima. With fish estimated at 40 ...

An international team of scientists has discovered that a large, commercially important fish from the Amazon Basin has become extinct in some local fishing communities. The team compared mainstream ...

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 ...

The arapaima, a giant species of fish that lurks in the Amazon river, may be threatened by overfishing. Studies reveal that errors in the classification of the species could mean that it is being ...

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 ...

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.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. 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 ...

A new species of the giant fish arapaima has been discovered from the central Amazon in Brazil, raising questions about what other species remain to be discovered and highlighting the potential for ...