Giant Amazonian Catfish Is a Record-Breaking Traveler

A child holds a dorado catfish (Brachyplatystoma rousseauxii) caught in the Amazon River. New research finds that these catfish make the longest migration of any freshwater fish: 3,595 miles (5,786 kilometers) from their spawning grounds in the Andes to the nursery where the juveniles mature in the Amazon estuary near the Atlantic Ocean.

Credit: Michael GouldingSource: http://www.livescience.com