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Recreational fishers and biologist Zeb Hogan hold a live 14-foot-long (4.3-meter-long) giant freshwater stingray the fishers caught in the Bang Pakong River in Chachoengsao, Thailand, on March 31,2008.

After weeks of combing remote Southeast Asian rivers for giant freshwater stingrays-possibly the largest freshwater fish in the world-Hogan finally found the creature near a Thai city. To his surprise, she gave birth soon after the capture.

There are accounts of freshwater stingrays growing as large as 1,000 pounds (45 kilograms), which could make them the largest freshwater fish in the world.

Hogan runs the Natiional Georgraphic Society's Megafishes Project, an effort to document 20 or so freshwater giants.

The giant river rays are extremely difficult to catch, as they bury themselves in mud when hooked.. They routinely break fishers lines and bend finger size hooks when straining to escape capture.

The ray's deadly barb, located at the base of its whiplike tail can easily puncture skin and bone.


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That is freaking AWESOME!

I thought so too when I saw the article...I've only seen the ones in our ocean, and they scare the hell out of me....

My words exactly!

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I'm glad I found this..This is the baby that birthed from the stingray and is less than an hour old. It measured 48 inches (122 cent.) from snout to tip of the tail. This may be the first time anyone witnessed a live birth of a giant freshwater stingray in the wild...Now that is amazing

Rays are so beatuiful and graceful in the water. But, yeah, if I saw that swimming towards me in the water, I'd be freaking, LOL

Run ! Rose! run ! I meant swim rose swim rose the boats sinkin! LoL