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The Amazon River is filled with mysterious creatures, and one of those is the piranha. Almost everybody knows what a piranha can do and yes, they're real. They're carnivorous fishes and they can strip ...

A freshwater Amazonian fish has evolved scales with microscopic armorlike structures specially designed to resist a piranha's piercing bite, new research shows. Arapaima gigas is the largest — and ...

Six years ago, the fish ecologist Rodney Rountree was on a skiff in the Peruvian Amazon. He was holding a piranha in his hand…underwater…in a river filled with ...

One cast and the water erupted — the fish that came up looked like something from the Amazon, not a Florida neighborhood. A ...

Researchers in a California biomechanics lab recently staged what should have been the most lopsided freshwater cage match of all time. In one corner was a red ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...