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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Flashbulbs cut through the darkness deep within the Tennessee Aquarium where children gawk at stingrays bigger than they are. The fish come from around the globe, from the giant pangassius of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Workers have been busy clearing out buildings, removing dried vines from cages and sprucing up the aquarium at the Georgetown zoo. These actions are long overdue and follow several reports about the ...

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 ...

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 ...