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A 200-kilogram Amazon River fish that produces 'milk': Scientists explain the arapaima’s surprising parenting secret

Deep in the vast rivers and flooded forests of the Amazon Basin, there lives a fish that appears to be prehistoric in both size and appearance. The arapaima, also called the “pirarucu,” is one of the ...
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The arapaima, a giant ‘prehistoric’ Amazon fish, is now in Florida, and wildlife experts are paying attention

Mark Wilson of FOX 13 Tampa Bay framed it like a plot twist for anglers: for years, the only realistic way to tangle with an arapaima was to book an expensive trip to the Amazon River, then sweat your ...