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 ...

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See GPS coordinates from the Tasha Skillman and Nikki Eisenmenger trip to Guyana here.See footage of arapaima in the Tennessee Aquarium at this link. Not much is known about arapaima, and it's easy to ...

Chicagoans and visitors waiting to see the newest spaces at the Shedd Aquarium received a promising update on Monday. In a rare move, the aquarium released photos showing the progress of construction ...

This is the moment a rare Arapaima fish native to the Amazon broke out of its aquarium in a store in Hebei, China on June 4. The Arapaima is one of the largest freshwater fish in the world, it can ...

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.

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.