Rivers have been the lifeblood of human civilization throughout history, and yet we know surprisingly little about what lives in many of them – including the giant creatures that prowl their depths.

A gigantic stingray caught in Asia’s third-largest river has been tagged and tracked by researchers, providing a host of information about an entire ecosystem that’s currently under threat. Last year, ...

It’s o-fish-al! The world’s largest freshwater fish has made its debut in the 2024 Guinness Book of World Records. The 661-pound stingray, caught in June 2022, was over 13 feet long, from snout to ...

Last year, a fisher caught the world’s largest freshwater fish, a Mekong giant stingray, in the Mekong River in Cambodia. After tracking the fish for a year, researchers are publishing research about ...

Researchers may have solved a big mystery surrounding a very big fish. Around the world, freshwater fish are in trouble. That’s especially true of large species. But one recent episode surprised ...

A fisherman in northern Cambodia hooked what researchers say is the world’s largest freshwater fish — a giant stingray that scientists know relatively little about. The fisherman, 42, caught the ...

BANGKOK (AP) — The world’s largest recorded freshwater fish, a giant stingray, has been caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia, according to scientists from the Southeast Asian nation and the United ...

A local fisherman in northeastern Cambodia caught a 660-pound stingray in the Mekong River and alerted scientists with the Wonders of the Mekong project. Researchers say the massive growth of this ...

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From an ecological standpoint, there is one stretch of the river, in northern Cambodia — roughly 100 miles from the border with Laos and going downstream to the town of Kratie — that is particularly ...

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(The Conversation) – Rivers have been the lifeblood of human civilization throughout history, and yet we know surprisingly little about what lives in many of them – including the giant creatures that ...