Sharks rule the water in terms of sheer weight, but there are plenty of other big fish in the record books. These are the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Life revolves around water in this quiet fishing village in Brazil’s southern Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland. Here, a ...

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 ...

North America's largest freshwater fish, in fact — could find its way into a couple of small Utah lakes. The Utah Department ...

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 ...

Louisiana is known for being a sportsman's paradise, with bountiful opportunities when it comes to reeling in some impressive marine life. The biggest fish ever caught in Louisiana was a bluefin tuna ...

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 ...