In a river of southern Vietnam, a 3-foot-long creature with “sharp” teeth swam through the murky water — or tried to, at least. Something closed around the wrinkly animal and pulled it toward the ...

In 2020, a fisherman in Cambodia caught a ginormous fish but did not know what it was. Rumors that the Mekong ghost still lurked in the river started to form. When researchers analyzed photos of ...

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The giant freshwater stingray (urogymnus polylepis) was classified as globally endangered on the IUCN Red List in 2021. An ...

And though aquaculture is already widely practiced along the Mekong—in many houseboats a trapdoor leads to a watery pen of farmed fish—those fish are fed with smaller wild fish from the river.

Researchers visited the Mekong River estuary near Ho Chi Minh City between 2023 and 2024 to survey a group of fish known as snake eels, according to a study published March 13 in the peer-reviewed ...

Juvenile fish normally protected in the river’s ... “The biggest challenge for the Mekong River is really the cumulative development of all these projects,” said Ms Courtney Weatherby ...

A team of intrepid swimmers have embarked on a courageous mission to draw attention to the plight of the Kingdom’s endangered ...