Researchers in South Africa captured the first video footage of a freshwater fish lunging out of the water and snatching a bird in flight. The behavior was discovered during a 15-day study on ...

The Smithsonian Channel doesn't call it "the ferocious tigerfish" for nothing. It's been clear for ages that the African tigerfish is a vicious predator. Just check out those teeth. Now ...

There were rumors that the African tigerfish could catch and eat flying birds, but it hadn't been proven until now. By Douglas Main Published Jan 13, 2014 8:28 PM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...

Since at least the 1940s, locals along the Lower Zambezi River have reported witnessing African tigerfish leap out of the water to snatch unsuspecting birds when they flew too close to the water's ...

There have been reports of the African tigerfish, a fierce predator with large teeth found in many rivers and lakes on the continent, leaping out of the water to eat low-flying birds, but the ...

African tigerfish, or Hydrocynus vittatus, is a freshwater fish widely found in Africa and a team of scientists, from the Water Research Group at South Africa’s North-West University ...

For the first time, biologists have reported Hydrocynus vittatus, a population of African tigerfish found in freshwater, preying on flying barn swallows in Africa's Schroda Dam. And they caught ...

Rumors about the elusive African tigerfish preying on low-flying birds have been circulating for a while now. However, scientists and researchers have never been able to see or document these ...

YES. That is amazing. For decades, African tigerfish have been rumored to leap from the water in active, predatory pursuit of low-flying birds. Now, for the first time ever, scientists have caught ...

I stood admiring a fish of great beauty and heart - an 8-pound tigerfish pulled from the Zambezi River in southern Africa. For the past several years my day job as a Bozeman-based wildlife ...

New images captured in a South African lake in the Mapungubwe National Park shows a tigerfish leaping out of the water and catching a swallow midflight. The video is the first record of a ...