Sharks rule the water in terms of sheer weight, but there are plenty of other big fish in (and excluded from) the record ...

Rivers have always been lifelines, as sources of food, stories, and surprises that remind us how little we truly know about the wild. Recently, fishermen caught the world’s largest freshwater fish ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2005, Thai fishermen caught a ~646-pound, 9-foot Mekong giant catfish, among the largest freshwater fish ever reliably recorded ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Two of the world's biggest freshwater fish ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. DUBUQUE — With prehistoric roots, monster fish still swim among us in freshwater lakes and rivers from ...

The giant catfish of the Amazon River are in danger. The dorado catfish, also known as the gilded catfish, boasts the longest freshwater migration of any fish, totaling roughly 7,000 miles. Part of ...

The Mekong River hides some of the largest freshwater fish on Earth, and in 2005, village fishermen in northern Thailand hauled in a Mekong giant catfish so massive that scientists compared it to a ...

A newly signed action plan aims to protect the migration cycle of the giant dorado catfish of the Amazon River Christopher Edwards is a Writer, Lifestyle at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since ...