RIO NEGRO, Brazil (WTHR) - One of the most popular things to do in the Amazon rainforest is fishing for piranha. In Sept. 2015, photographer Steve Rhodes and I spent several days at the Anavilhanas ...

South America’s piranha family of fish — notorious as eaters of flesh — can be traced back to a single ancestor which dispersed when the Amazon was flooded by seawater some five million years ago, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of fish species — about 2,500 of them named — call the Amazon River home, but scientists estimate nearly half of the ...

Have you ever wondered what secrets the Amazon Basin holds beneath its murky waters? I'm Flavio Gallo Cardozo, a biologist from Bolivia, and I'm excited to share with you the journey of discovering a ...

Piranhas are among the most deadly creatures in the water, with razor-sharp teeth capable of slicing flesh easily, but a fish in the Amazon River basin has developed a "bulletproof vest" to protect ...

The fish flopped violently about on the wooden floor of the boat, its razor-sharp teeth chomping, the sound echoing in the silent, waning afternoon. The river was calm and there was no wind, the trees ...

Piranhas inhabit exclusively the fresh waters of South America. Their geographical distribution extends from the Orinoco River basin (Venezuela) to the North, down to that of the Paraná (Argentina) to ...

After a canceled Antarctica trip, he booked the last remaining suite on a luxury Amazon River cruise just one day before departure. The 72-hour journey took him around 100 miles down the Amazon on a ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of the world's largest freshwater fish is protected by the natural equivalent of a "bullet-proof vest," helping it thrive in the dangerous waters of the Amazon River basin ...