Piranhas belong to a family of bony fish characterized by highly developed dentition. They’re cousins to the pacu fish, which has dentition eerily similar to human teeth. Unlike pacu teeth, which are ...

Pacus are not the only fish with human-like teeth that appear in U.S. waters. In 2021, a sheepshead fish (Archosargus probatocephalus) with a much larger set of pearly whites was caught from a ...

A boy fishing a neighborhood pond in Oklahoma caught an exotic fish from South America that is related to piranha and features teeth that look human. In photos displayed in a Facebook post by the ...

Oklahoma resident Charlie Clinton, 11, caught a pacu, a South American relative of the piranha, while fishing in a local pond. Photo: Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation ...

Piranha teeth have the tough task of crunching bone and shredding flesh and, like well-used kitchen knives, they dull over time. Since they have no way to sharpen their teeth, piranhas lose and ...

Their teeth should still be respected, though. Just ask Sandra Whaley, whose 11-year-old granddaughter caught a one-pound pacu from Oklahoma’s Fort Cobb Lake in 2018.

As if US waterways weren't teeming with enough invasive fish of late, a Texas angler caught a South American piranha relative with "human teeth" at a local lake on Sunday. The fish, dubbed a pacu ...

A fish with human-like teeth and a smile that only a mother could love is causing a buzz on social media after being snagged in the Outer Banks of North Carolina earlier this week.

Pacus are not the only fish with human-like teeth that appear in U.S. waters. In 2021, a sheepshead fish (Archosargus probatocephalus) with a much larger set of pearly whites was caught from a ...

The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation is warning citizens not to release exotic fish into local waters after an 11-year-old boy caught a fish related to the piranha in a neighborhood pond.

Some 150 million years ago, prehistoric fish swimming in the sponge and coral reefs of what is now southern Germany might not have suspected there was a piranha-like predator prowling among them ...

Good news for bathers at the Kinneret. The vicious-looking fish discovered in the lake last week were not piranha, as feared, but another fish – of the vegetarian persuasion. Hebrew University ...