The remarkably tough scales of a huge air-breathing fresh water fish in the Amazon Basin named "Arapaima gigas" were the subject of a recent study led by Robert Ritchie of Berkeley Lab's Materials ...

The Amazon and its tributaries are home to almost one tenth of the world’s freshwater fish biodiversity, 2500 species being recorded. The giant fish Arapaima gigas is one of the most emblematic of ...

Measuring 10 feet long and weighing in at more than 400 pounds, it's hard to imagine that the arapaima, the largest fish in the Amazon River basin, could ever go missing. But these huge fish are ...

The Amazon River is filled with mysterious creatures, and one of those is the piranha. Almost everybody knows what a piranha can do and yes, they're real. They're carnivorous fishes and they can strip ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In the most recent study, researcher Donald Stewart with SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF), describes an entirely new ...

Oct. 16 (UPI) --In a newly published study, scientists uncovered the secrets of the scales that protect Arapaima gigas, a large Amazonian fish, from the powerful bites of piranhas. Arapaima gigas is ...

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 ...