The seizure comes months after over 1,000 lemurs and tortoises were smuggled into Thailand by way of Madagascar.

A foam box filled with live animals led to the arrest of a 52-year-old man in an airport in Thailand, officials said.

According to the Guinness Book of Records, a nine-foot-long individual caught in northern Thailand in 2005 weighted an astounding 646 pounds, making it the largest exclusively freshwater fish ever ...

"We are happy that we can put it to good use and can help the animals too," says Preeyawadee. Makro has signed on for one year, and Thailand's wildlife conservation office is expanding the project ...