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), ...

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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 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 ...

Deep in the vast rivers and flooded forests of the Amazon Basin, there lives a fish that appears to be prehistoric in both size and appearance. The arapaima, also called the “pirarucu,” is one of the ...

Conclude the journey in Arapaima Hunt: A Fisherman’s Journey To The Ultimate Catch Part 3, where persistence, strategy, and timing come together in the final phase of the hunt. In this episode, we ...

Listen, I don't have anything against piranhas. They've never bothered me none. But a whole lot of other creatures in the Amazon have every right to fear them—except for the arapaima. This beast grows ...