The new species has been found in two small isolated waterways in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, according to a study.

Have you ever seen a fish eat a bird? Probably not, but that’s exactly what the Wels catfish is capable of doing. This video ...

Image via Pixabay The Wels catfish is a freshwater giant that inhabits rivers and lakes across Europe. This species can grow over 9 feet in length and weigh as much as 660 pounds. Its size, combined ...

The continent’s largest freshwater fish, native to Eastern Europe, is an invasive species that threatens native fish already in decline. Wels catfish, which are native to Eastern Europe, can ...

Few freshwater fish can match the size of the Mekong giant catfish, which can exceed 10 feet and weigh over 660 pounds. Native to the Mekong River, this gentle giant feeds on plankton rather than ...

It is called a Wels catfish and they can be found throughout Europe. The fish was 15 inches longer than the current world fish record caught in 2010, which weighed over 297 pounds.

In English Cadrezzate “I thought it was a wels catfish, but instead…” Matteo Rogiani brought a pike of seven kilos to shore during a wels catfish fishing trip: “It was more than a meter long.” It had ...

Wels catfish eat a range of worms, insects, fish, rodents, frogs, and birds. Their mouths contain rows of small but incredibly sharp teeth, and there have been numerous reports of this fearsome fish ...

A notable catch in 2018 saw an angler reel in a wels catfish that weighed over 250 pounds (113 kg) and measured nearly 8 feet (2.4 meters) in length.

"We identified several genes across multiple tissues as the most promising candidates, such as hps4, hsp90b1, raph1, uqcrfs1 genes, potentially causally linked to the albino phenotype in Wels catfish.

The world record for a wels catfish is currently 297 pounds, 9 ounces. According to the International Game Fish Association, that fish was caught by Attila Zsedely in the Po River in Italy, the ...

Those bigger wels catfish that he talks about having been caught previously simply didn’t qualify for record status when caught because the British Record Fish Committee suspended record-taking ...