Some fish swim in synchrony. Others, it turns out, breathe in synchrony. This is true for arapaimas, an obligate air-breathing species living in the Amazon. A new study in Communications Biology, led ...
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 ...
Nearly one-third of the fish in the Brazilian Amazon state of Amapa have such high levels of mercury caused by illegal mining that they are dangerous for human consumption, according to a new study.