The world has seven continents, but do you know the largest freshwater fish in each? These creatures show the incredible ...

The giant freshwater stingray may be the world’s largest freshwater fish. It’s also cloaked in mystery. No one is sure how many giant stingrays are left, which habitats they prefer ...

Every other fish in the Top Five came from the ocean as well. There have also been plenty of big fish pulled from freshwater lakes and rivers around the world. The biggest of these are all catfish, ...

Viral for their good looks, blobfish are very unique. They do not have a swim bladder, full skeleton, muscles or scales.

Mussel shells provide living space for insects and plants, and empty shells serve as nesting sites for small fish like darters. Unfortunately, for all their allure, freshwater mussels are the most ...

This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide would lack their prime source of protein without freshwater fish. Yet the lakes ...

Millions of tilapia, a popular freshwater fish Ghanaians believe is ... Yet Tropo is one of only a few big fish farms in west Africa. Despite its large lakes, long coastlines and plentiful fish ...

No matter how big some fish may think they are ... They can swim fast and are very good at hunting other fish. A pike is a freshwater fish that lives in lakes and rivers. Pike mainly hunt fish ...

In addition to listing the five biggest fish of all time, all of which were reeled in from the ocean, we’ll also look at the biggest freshwater fish ever caught. Finally, we’ll round out the ...