10 DEADLIEST River Monsters Of The Amazon!

Hi, it’s Katrina! From the biggest snakes on the planet, to sharks that just might surprise you as you go for a swim, here are 10 of the deadliest river monsters of the amazon!
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10. Giant Leech
One look at the Giant Leech and you might think you’re watching an episode of The X-Files, but no. This creature is real and it lives in the Amazon. The species was discovered in 2007, when one was removed from the nose of a young girl in Peru. The attending doctor sent the specimen to a colleague at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, who was not able to figure out which family of leeches it belonged to.
9. Green Anaconda
Pound for pound, the Green Anaconda is the largest snake in the world. The Anaconda isn’t just a creature from the movies. They live in rivers, swamps and marshes of the tropical rainforests of the Amazon and Orinoco basins. Even though they have a bad reputation for attacks on humans, reports of them eating humans are extremely rare (unless of course, you are keeping one as a pet. Then it is at your own risk).
8. Payara
Just because the Payara is small, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t pack a big bite. In fact, the fish gets its nickname, Vampire Fish, from the dagger-like fangs that protrude from their lower jaws. Bright silver in color, the fish put those fangs to good use, using them to impale their victims. But their teeth are just the beginning. Known for their acrobatic jumps, lightning-fast movements and brute strength, these fearsome little fish can actually grow to over 40 pounds.
7. Sawfish
Picture a shark with a long snout that has a flattened blade for its nose and studded teeth and you'll know exactly what a Sawfish looks like. The largest of the shark-like rays, there are five species of Sawfish, with the largetooth sawfish even reaching some 25 feet in length!! Some have been found that weighed between 1100-1300 pounds, but it could be even more.
6. Arapaima
A sleek, freshwater fish that is native to the Amazon River, the Arapaima is a broad shaped fish with a bony head and a dorsal fin that stretches along their back towards their tail. One of the most fascinating things about it, is that it can breathe air. Usually with a copper green head, the Arapaima is found in the rainforest rivers of the AMazon Basin and nearby lakes and swamps. One of the world's largest freshwater fish, these giants can reach 9 feet (2.75 meters) long and weigh up to 440 pounds (200 kilograms).
5. Pacu
Although the Pacu is known as the vegetarian piranha, what’s most scary about them is their teeth. As you can see they don’t have pointed fangs, like the Payara. But their teeth look shockingly human. With two sets of blunt molars that are used to crack nuts and grind up plants, the Pacu might give you more of a fright if it happens to bare its teeth, rather than from its potential for attack.
4. Black Caiman
If you came looking for a giant predator, look no further than the Black Caiman. While caimans and alligators are both members of the Alligatoridae family, Caimans live in the warm, freshwater marshlands and rivers of central and South America, most notably the Amazon Basin. A way to tell them apart is to look at the shape of their snout- when alligators and caimans close their mouth, only the teeth in the upper jaw are visible because they have an overbite, like us. The upper jaw consequently has quite a smooth jawline.
3. Bull Shark
If you thought swimming in freshwater meant you wouldn't run into a shark, think again! Bull Sharks can actually thrive in both saltwater and freshwater thanks to their specially developed kidneys that can sense the change in salinity of the water they are swimming in.
2. Red-Bellied Piranhas
A freshwater fish, the piranha is well known for its sharp teeth and carnivorous nature. But with so many species with a wide range of diets, does every piranha deserve its bad reputation? Inhabiting the freshwaters of South America from the Orinoco River basin in Venezuela up to the Parana River in Argentina, approximately 30 species of piranhas can be found in South America today.
1. Poison Dart Frog
Sometimes, deadly things come in small packages. Take the Poison Dart Frog. They are the most poisonous animal alive and are so lethal that native hunters use them to make poison darts. Hunters from a tribe in Colombia regularly hunted birds, monkeys and other animals using poison darts, taking the poison from the bright yellow frogs to construct the deadly projectiles.
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[@gem3506]

I love watching shows that have anything to do based on Amazon creatures or ocean creatures all kinds. I find it just fascinating to me.

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Gem Lynn I recommend Octonauts.

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Here’s some more information on the Amazon and creatures of the Amazon: • The Amazon is the longest river on the planet, although it’s debated whether the Nile holds this title. • Many creatures only live in the Amazon. • Pink river dolphins can use special sounds (echolocation) to find things in the murky water. So if you lose something in the river, maybe you’ll meet a helpful dolphin! • Electric eels can zap with electricity when upset or startled. • Despite their reputation, piranhas hardly ever eat anything bigger than themselves. • Arapaimas are the biggest fish in the Amazon, and they can leap into the air! They can also breathe by gulping air, but only for a little while. • Wood-eating catfish (as their name suggests) will happily eat any trees that fall into the river. If your vehicle gets trapped by a falling tree, maybe a catfish can help out! • Capybaras are usually gentle, but can become territorial when protecting their young. • Anacondas are dangerous to capybaras, especially the young ones. • According to pirate legend, there is a hidden city in the Amazon! • Here’s a cute one: there are twice as many cats in the Amazon as there are in any other episode! ...Did I say episode? I meant adventure. Definitely not just talking about a TV programme here... On a serious note, all these facts from the programme are true. I just happen to be obsessed with cats, including fictional ones.

[@deucebiggelow3768]

Can you tell me something about yourself now.... preferably dirty...

[@lenabluejay1166]

I certainly did not expect replies like these on my comment about things I learned from an episode of Octonauts! LOL!

[@reggiesadventures6326]

Jeremy Wade catches half of these on river monster lol

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A true legend

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More than half. Love his shows. River Monsters & Dark Waters. 👍🐳🐋🐟🐠🐡

[@ekramer2478]

Jeremy Wade is hot. Me and my octogenarian Mom would watch him. She thought so too. (And those guys on Supernatural...laughs).

[@areilly2496]

Was just thinking the same thing 😁

[@rolfsmithe6790]

And the other half tried to catch him lol hahahe

[@iso7565]

I've searched everywhere on Amazon but cant seem to find any.

[@taradookie3041]

Lol😂😂😂

[@theleviathan7383]

I can already imagine somebody getting woodshed from this

[@angiearregoitia5838]

Lol

[@Eve_gothgirl]

Next video: *top 10 deadliest creatures on eBay*

[@t1g4r]

I thought #10 was called a sea lampray Lol I watch river monsters a little too much, and I think he's caught the majority of these

[@yinhoukhor7109]

This is another one of those compilations that I find interesting! My favourite River Monster from this list would easily be the Green Anaconda! Amazing creatures! Especially from a distance! As for giant leeches, you won't even need to go all the way to the Amazon to find those!

[@sbenton62]

Very interesting and well done. Thanks Katrina!

[@gaminggenius_1]

Love your channel 💝💝 keep growing

[@mikeor-]

One of my friends, Garret Reichert, has poison dart frogs as pets. He doesn't die because his frogs don't eat the bugs that make them poisonous.

[@sleepychameleon6871]

Lucky! They are so pretty

[@Kkauanui]

I just love your videos. You are so amazing!!!

[@LPhooligan]

Enjoying these longer and longer vids

[@waynebollentin989]

The Payara does has a predator itself. They're known to even eat one the same size as them.

[@ewanjukes9631]

Love the new intro. It look really cool ♥️

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I love your vids ❤.

[@RodeGameFreak]

Would love to see more about dolphins or orca's. Cool vid katrina ⚘

[@lillystudios1428]

Hi Katrina would you do a video on the monsters of the Congo animals on land and on water please I love this channel I’ve subscribed 😻

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Great video again origins explained and I wonder if Jeremy wade is watching this video from river monsters

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cool new intro love it😁

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Omg I love watching these vid

[@Laurel-zw7jr]

I love poison dart frogs! I have a red and blue plushy of one somewhere

[@depthchargestu7867]

I keep them as pets, I can watch them all day.

[@JDAbke]

On no.3 bull shark...it has been caught in altin Illinois on the Mississippi river.

[@Calv26]

Amazing video, like it

[@marvellover6233]

I have watched way too many videos like this to ever want to go back in the ocean ever.

[@leoncergaming7745]

I like that intro, Katrina.

[@victorgreystokeii7325]

Was not prepared to see the Anaconda 😟, but that's alright. Anaconda is the only snakes I don't like! However, people were Venezuela believe that Megapiranha Paranensis still exists somewhere from Orinoco River known as Amazon River. Awesome video as always! Have a lovely weekend everyone! 😊😊😊😊😊

[@kimwaddell4218]

I have never seen a Sawfish b4. It was pretty cool

[@magic3400]

The Green Anaconda is not the longest snake, that would be the Reticulated Python. The G. Anaconda is the heaviest.

[@theleviathan7383]

I don't like how there somewhat demonizing some of this animals

[@lomi1368]

3:29 who doesn't know them, the aquatic dog!

[@luisdamighty4304]

I’m so early that there is no good comments to read

[@vampiregirl32]

Lol

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Lamo

[@indy_go_blue6048]

Are. There are no good comments to read. There still aren't.

[@pupsparrotsyt3370]

You should do a video of the top animals that make the best pets

[@gwyn9846]

My husband and I raised a pacu as a pet. It lived in a 55 gallon tank and grew to be almost 10 inches long.

[@927candace]

Gwyn Meade did it start out pretty small? A friend of mine had a couple pacus in a 150 gallon tank they grew to be about 16 inches. Started out the size of a silver dollar.

[@jamesbriggs3092]

this is my favorite type of videos. i also appreciate your sense of humor. can you also do a video on killer earthworms (joke). thanks katrina . i always enjoy your channel.

[@khaleelchachki]

That sound effect of leach sucking blood. 😰

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So glad I live in North America. Canada 🇨🇦. Far, far away.

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The only bad thing about this channel is that all videos end btw we need merch!!

[@krzysztofsamus739]

1:13 pretty sure that's a lamprey

[@OlympicLeprechaun]

Actually the Reticulated Python, native to Southeast Asia, is the world's largest snake.

[@mariotime448]

Longest.

[@lucijatrdin3793]

Katrina do a video obaut the scariest Europian legends

[@maxcrexwell1181]

You should talk about paddel fish and electric ells

[@mindymcneill4111]

The saw fish don't have teeth. Their "teeth" are bones

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Teeth are bones

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@@J_fellow teeth grow back

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bones dont

[@J_fellow]

When u brake an arm it heals just slow

[@mindymcneill4111]

@@J_fellow if you lost a fricken arm would the BONES in your Fricken arm GROW BACK

[@simone222]

Once had a pet pacu. He was the sweetest and gentlest fish I had.

[@taradookie3041]

I have 2 little ones

[@simone222]

​@@taradookie3041 Paco lasted 11 years, he was massive. I used to keep him in a 100 gallon tank, but the upkeep was tedious. As such, I just included him in my Koi pond later on. May your two little ones bring you joy. I wish them good health. Thank you for the sub, btw. I just returned the favour. Nice to meet you.

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I like the lot of stuff that you throw out there but I really like it when kick facts like these! Like my pops used to say you learn something new everyday

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i love wild animal and lerning about

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Kitten Kratos says thank you Katrina for the video on fish

[@gabrielalmond3363]

Where was the electric eel while you were making this

[@angela21975]

I really like these videos of animals/herps/birds etc from other countries than the one I live in. Lotsa fun but I wish everytime you get to a new animal you would spell the name in one of the sides at the bottom. You say the name once and then i cant remember so I cant search for it again if I want to know more!! Just a helpful thought! Thanks VM!!

[@toraretolive3616]

The payara armatus can reach 3 foot, small?

[@durgalimbu7863]

I learn so much from this channel

[@svetlanavasil5980]

A little more about the Amazon. The portion of this jungle located in Peru​-its Amazon region-​covers almost 60 percent of that country. Although only a fraction of the human population of Peru lives in this area, plants and animals in abundance find refuge beneath the forest’s 115-foot-high [35 m] canopy. In fact, the Amazon is considered to be one of the richest ecological treasure chests on earth. Over 3,000 varieties of butterflies float and flutter through the thick air. Some 4,000 types of orchids flaunt their gorgeous flowers. More than 90 species of snakes lurk in tree limbs and along the forest floor. And an estimated 2,500 species of fish​-including electric eels and piranhas-​patrol the rivers and streams. The world of the people of the Amazon is shrinking fast. New highways dissect the forest. Farms and coca cultivation eat into the jungle. Illegal logging lays bare great swaths of forest, each day destroying an area the equivalent of 1,200 soccer fields! Even the waterways suffer as legal mining operations and illegal cocaine production pollute the tributaries that feed the Amazon River. Indeed, the isolated people of the Amazon are feeling the effects of living during what the Bible prophesied would be “critical times hard to deal with.” (2 Timothy 3:1-5) Is the Amazon doomed to total destruction? The Bible provides the assurance that this will not be the case. Under the rule of God’s Kingdom, the entire earth will be transformed into a paradise, as our Creator intended it to be.​-Isaiah 35:1, 2; 2 Peter 3:13.

[@ellalewis2898]

wonderful, thank you for this

[@killerdude666]

How about a giant Pacific octopus for a video thanks Katrina

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WOW!!!!!!!👍👍👍

[@allghilliedup21]

Cool. I'll just stay at home in Canada in the middle of farmland.

[@glennburgess5837]

Love your videos would love to learn about elephants and their species

[@sachin530]

Woah woah

[@joelwcarter8058]

do a complete video on sharks

[@erikstensaas1202]

I can see how a toad is the ancestor of Poison Frogs. Their feet are not as webbed like a frog and toads don't have very webbed feet

[@jarrenlumpkin5178]

whoa

[@zielacant4909]

1:21 the dog looks my dog she was terrified to see a leach eating her eye 🐕🐕🐕

[@riedayrucker858]

Well if a poqu takes a nibble on my neither reigion it's be with god fast

[@rajanpatel3663]

Never stepping foot in that water 😆

[@rileyspradlin5768]

Aha.. “relentless bite” is an understatement. Remember that one time Jeremy Wade caught one, and it bit through kevlar AND steel? 😳 It was like butter.. No. Ma’am.

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Frist viewer love the video

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0:46 is that big foot behind the tree lol

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Uggghhhh...insert eye roll.

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[@toraretolive3616]

Nakonda reachs usally the size of over 10 metres.

[@tizziewpblack3696]

Those were lamprey teeth not leeches.

[@lolcatyt2066]

I think two of those pics were of the African Tiger fish as opposed to the Vampire

[@twitchylance117]

No context... *YEEEEEEEE*

[@TheGamingThoradolosaur4258]

What about the eletric eel

[@todddembsky8321]

KATRINA 😱 these monsters are too scary. I will never be able to go swimming in a lake or river again !!!! Love this channel

[@abhiii100]

Fish that bites nuts lol 😂😂

[@pjb7596]

The saw fish is in Australia

[@debraspark1642]

the reticulated python is actually the largest snake in the world

[@marcoarias641]

Wow

[@debrajenkins1622]

Damn, that fish got CHOPPERS!!!!!!!😵

[@maxcrexwell1181]

But very good video

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Hi Katrina how are yuou

[@haydendionsay8283]

I want the philippine well known aquarium species.

[@albertcedillo5685]

I never seen those kind frogs. Just normal ones. I have grap one in past when I was a kid in el Paso tx. Was is most deadly snake a d bigges one. With out passion. Could they ever be Titanoboa vs Anandca. Vs green and black? Don't forget jelly fish is also deadly

[@zimikkachui5766]

I thought you're gonna start singing Emu's Pink Windmill Kids song. "Hi It's Katrina. My name is Hugh. I'm Sarah....." I don't know if anyone even watched that video nowadays.

[@evelinecarolinelienhuaming1184]

I can't Live in Amazon Jungle!!! Must be Desperate in Day One!!! I want to go to Mall!!! 😭😭😭

[@vampiregirl32]

Going to shopping for makeup and hair cut and 🙋 👭I'm up for shopping I just bring my brother we can use him for the carry the bags and other stuff to 😹😈

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@@vampiregirl32 Yay!!! Your Brother is so Kind!!! 🙌🙌🙌 I Wish I Have One. I think I Need to go to HairStyle Tomorrow!!! Shopping Time is Fun than in Creepy Jungle 😨😨😨

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[@mrcraboboiandsharkoboi5302]

1:14 its a sea lampray kinda like a leach but they live in the sea

[@janeferraz413]

And are a lot bigger. 😨

[@prof.moriarty5700]

Not all are in the sea

[@prof.moriarty5700]

Not all*

[@polnareff9205]

Hi katrena

[@candiceperry7916]

These creatures are scary&weird

[@fahrigonzo]

1:14 that's a close up of lamprey's mouth. check your facts!

[@mikeweaver1214]

Several pics don’t match the animal being discussed. lol

[@dmerritt4ever]

so, don't go in the amazon river. got it!

[@goldie3004]

"Nice" photoshopped thumbnail

[@christianhollow2072]

Green Anacondas are not the largest snakes. The largest is the Reticulated Python, which in rare cases, can be over 40 ft, in length. The largest ever found was 48 ft, 8 in, and weighed 983 lbs. The largest Green Anaconda ever measured was almost 28 ft. with a girth of 44 inches. She wasn't weighed at the time she was caught, but scientists estimate that she must have weighed over 500 lbs.

[@makaelaharkness2553]

I’m guaranteed we have bigger ones in our lakes in Canada 🇨🇦

[@elpatronescobar2510]

Tigerfish in thumbnail,an African tigerfish.The Amazon river was in South America when I was at school,was my teacher telling me lies or is it in Africa?

[@marten594]

You're not mistaken, this channel is though. For instance, the pacu has nut cracking teeth, for cracking nuts (that fall into the water), when they were introduced to Papua New Guinea, they turned carnivorous, and then and only then, they went for humans. This was in the Sepik river, there's a whole episode of River Monsters dedicated to that. Just as almost every scary creature here was featured in said program.

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Snake 💗 ❤️

[@waluigifan7545]

I didnt know movie sonic was a fish

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An anaconda doesn’t have teeth because it is a constrictor a type of snake that uses constricting as its main way of getting food

[@Chris-yv5tw]

Africa’s top 15 deadliest species

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Justice for saw fish. 😥

[@starlighgame2979]

you forgot something is the black pirana

[@Vinicius-xm3cy]

The arapaima or pirarucu (the name we call in Brasil) isn't a "monster" (despite being really huge) they are inoffensive to humans and you can even swin with then.

[@alexgiles9031]

im not going to amazon... ever...