FORT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami/AP) — Florida is already in a battle with dangerous and invasive species like the Burmese python, green iguana and lionfish and now there's a new predator in the state called ...

A colossal freshwater fish that can reach up to 10 feet in length has mysteriously washed up on a shoreline in Florida. The arapaima is a predatory fish native to the Amazon, but one was found dead on ...

Everyone knows the tiger, the panda, the blue whale, but what about the other five to thirty million species estimated to inhabit our Earth? Many of these marvelous, stunning, and rare species have ...

A massive, aggressive species of fish from the Amazon was found recently in the Caloosahatchee River, and at least one local fishing guide wonders if there are more plying Southwest Florida waters. "I ...

Last month, during a visit to Jaycee Park in Cape Coral, Florida, Leah Getts’s son spotted a massive dead fish floating in the Caloosahatchee River. “It was bigger than my 7-year-old, who’s not a ...

The Arapaima fish, considered to be biggest fish and commercially important one at the Amazon Basin, went extinct in a number of local fishing communities, a group of researchers revealed in a study ...

Here's a question - if piranhas are so ferocious and will attack anything, why aren't they the only fish in the Amazon? Well, in some cases, it's because other fish possess bite-proof armor. The ...

This is the shocking moment a giant arapaima fish leapt from a tank and startled a feeder. The woman held a small fish above the aquarium, where two huge fish with armor-like scales waited for her to ...

The Burmese python, green iguana and lionfish are, by now, well-known invasive species that have established a dangerous foothold in Florida. But a fearsome new invasive predator has emerged in the ...