Thousands of fish species — about 2,500 of them named — call the Amazon River home, but scientists estimate nearly half of the marine creatures lurking in the massive stretch of water remain ...

SAO RAIMUNDO, Brazil - Even in the most biodiverse rainforest of the world, the pirarucu stands out: It can weigh up to 440 pounds, by far the largest of 2,300 known fish species in the Amazon. Not so ...

An international team of scientists, including an ESF professor, has discovered that a large, commercially important fish from the Amazon Basin has become extinct in some local fishing communities.

The Amazon is the largest, most biologically diverse basin in the world. Its rainforest, the planet’s greatest continuous tropical forest, plays a critical role in global climate regulation. The ...

Jody David, a biologist manager for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, gets calls all the time to identify a fish an angler caught that wasn't exactly his or her target species. Most ...

Amazon’s top technology officer told the United Nations this week that people will need to eat more fish and less beef if they want to protect the environment, and said artificial intelligence is a ...

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