Arapaima

They can grow up to almost 10 feet and weigh 440LB they are one of the world’s largest fresh water fish. They live in South America. The eat other small fish and animals like birds. The fish also has the ability to breathe air from the surface due to a lung like lining of its throat.

• Coelacanth

  

  They have been around for about 410 million years the can weigh up to 175 LB and grow to 6 and a half feet long. They were believed to have been extinct since the end of the Cretaceous period, until the first was found off the east coast of South Africa, off the Chalumna River in 1938.

Dorado

A fish that is gold in color. It’s a large river fish that lives in South America. They are about three feet long and weigh about 20 pounds. They eat birds, frogs, fish and other small mammals.

Ocean Sunfish

This is the heaviest known bony fish in the world. It has an average adult weight of 2,200 lbs. They eat mostly jelly fish. They are about 6 feeet long.