“This is a group of animals that people don’t know very much about,” says Hogan. In 2019, Hogan published a study in Global Change Biology that found freshwater megafauna populations plummeted by 88% from 1970 to 2012. Hogan calls the experience a “one-stop shop for learning about these big fish,” many of which are quietly dwindling from dozens of locations around the world. And soon, Carnegie Museum of Natural History visitors will be able to walk a mile in Hogan’s waders thanks to the immersive exhibition Monster Fish: In Search of the Last River Giants, opening Oct. On his Nat Geo Wild TV series “Monster Fish,” audiences watch in awe as their host tracks down and catches everything from electric eels to living-room-sized stingrays. Since then, Hogan has spent the past two decades studying freshwater giants around the world. Fish biologist Zeb Hogan with a catfish that weighs more than 100 pounds in the Salween River Basin in Malaysia, where he was filming his Nat Geo Wild TV series, “Monster Fish.” Photo courtesy of Zeb Hogan, University of Nevada, Reno
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