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BANGKOK (AP) — The world's largest recorded freshwater fish, a giant stingray, has been caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia, according to scientists from the Southeast Asian nation and the ...
To understand this anatomical feature, Dr. Chaumel and her colleague George Lauder took a closer look at the tails of cownose rays, a type of stout stingray with a double-lobed snout.
Phnom Penh – A 300kg giant freshwater stingray (Urogymnus polylepis) ... The specimen measured 4m from its head to the end of its tail and was 2.2m wide. It weighed 300kg.
Giant stingrays are not aggressive, but the team had to work with caution. That tail has a venomous barb that can reach almost a foot long and can penetrate bone.
How a Record-Setting Giant Fish Could Help Save Its Home River A 661-pound stingray caught in the Mekong was tagged and tracked. The data is giving scientists new insight into a fragile ecosystem.
BANGKOK — The world’s largest recorded freshwater fish, a giant stingray, has been caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia, according to scientists from the Southeast Asian nation and the ...
For one lucky fisherman in Cambodia, the catch of the day was the world’s largest recorded freshwater fish — a giant stingray weighing a stunning 660 pounds that took about a dozen men to ...
The stingray, captured on June 13, measured almost 13 feet from snout to tail and weighed slightly under 660 pounds, according to a statement Monday by Wonders of the Mekong, a joint Cambodian-U.S ...
The giant stingray measured almost 4 metres from snout to tail and weighed slightly under 300 kg, according to a statement on Monday by Wonders of the Mekong, a joint Cambodian-US research project.
A giant stingray snagged on a fisherman's line in Southeast Asia may be the largest freshwater fish ever caught. The 13-foot-long, 661-pound stingray was caught June 13 by a 42-year-old fisherman ...