For 17 years, Zeb Hogan, a biologist, has been searching for the world’s largest freshwater fish. On June 13, his team found it – a giant freshwater stingray, or Urogymnus polylepis. The ray, hauled ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article was originally featured on Field & Stream. From the murky depths of Southeast Asia’s Mekong River, a new world record has emerged. The biggest freshwater fish caught anywhere, ever, was ...

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 ...

Boramy is 13 feet long – which includes her tail – and required about a dozen men to bring her to shore, according to Reuters. The stingray was measured by a team of international experts working with ...

It took a dozen men to load Boramy, a giant stingray, onto the scales. At just under 300kg, she is the biggest freshwater fish ever weighed. She was caught by a Cambodian fisherman on the Mekong, ...

THAILAND (MEDIA GENERAL) – They knew it was big, but had no idea just how big! Animal adventurer, Jeff Corwin, and Thailand researchers worked together to catch, release and study massive stingray.