Rivers
Rivers cover around 480,000 square miles of our planet. They're crucial to the communities that rely on them—people and animals alike!
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Find
Some animals in Rivers can be hard to spot—and reward close looking!
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Breathe
Meet the Australian lungfish, which relies on both gills and lungs to breathe.
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Ripple
Take in freshwater fishes from around the world in this diverse exhibit.
Where freshwater flows
Rivers cover around 480,000 square miles of our planet. They're crucial to the communities that rely on them—people and animals alike! River animals have developed incredible adaptations, like the paddlefish, which swims with a wide-open mouth to catch food drifting by on the current, or the glass catfish, which has no scales and is completely transparent, almost disappearing in the river's flow.
Clouded Archerfish
Paddlefish
Violet-Line Piranha
Fly River Turtle
Lungfish