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Megafishes: Facts, Photos, and Videos

July 20th, 2008 · 3 Comments

National Geographic has created a special site focusing on giant freshwater fish:

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/megafishes-index.html

Photo galleries, videos, and facts about several giant fish species. 

Tags: National Geographic · dog-eating catfish · giant stingray

3 responses so far ↓

  • 1 CJD // Nov 30, 2008 at 6:27 am

    This page is really cool!

  • 2 Sy // Aug 20, 2010 at 4:21 am

    damn! stupid developing country, like China didn’t realize treasure that they really have. They seem vow that sacrifice the nature is needed for economic sake. From my view non of developing country development plan that pro-environment, none one of them.Yu-fish that also symbolize wealth and prosperous, but they destroy this giant fish migratory and habitat for their wealth.
    shame on them!

  • 3 Hubert Matthes // May 5, 2011 at 3:07 am

    You may not be aware that a giant catfish(Chrysichthys sp?)exists in the Congo river.I saw a specimen,164 kg,in1958 in Ikela(central Congo basin)in 1958,caught by fishermen.Unfortunately I had no camera at that moment! A specimen captured in Stanley Pool(Kinshasa)was photographed and published in a colonial agricultural magazine in the fifties,but I don’t have the reference.Hopefully this information can be useful.

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