Researchers said they named the new species “cuulongensis” after the Vietnamese name “cửu long,” which means “nine dragons” and references the many mouths of the Mekong River where the new species ...

When finished next year, it will be the eighth dam on the Lancang River—China's name for its 1,300-mile stretch of the Mekong. In recent years Boontom and many others here have sold their ...

Despite its gargantuan size, but also because of it, the giant catfish lives a tenuous existence in the murky waters of its native river, Southeast Asia’s Mekong, where its numbers have ...

Rumors that the Mekong ghost still lurked in the river started to form. When researchers analyzed photos of the fish, it did look like a Mekong ghost -- same mouth shape, same silver back ...

PHNOM PENH (Xinhua): Another newborn Mekong River Irrawaddy dolphin has been sighted, raising the number of newborn dolphin calves in Cambodia to five so far this year, the Ministry of Agriculture ...