Their sharp teeth do live up to the piranhas infamous bite. The upper and lower teeth interlock. However, they are better ...

News; US News; Dogs; Astonishing time it would take fearsome piranha fish to eat a whole dog Piranhas are well known as fearsome, ferocious, food-obsessed hunters of the sea – and have evolved ...

You might’ve heard about a fish that bites testicles. Sounds like a bad joke—but it’s based on the pacu, a freshwater fish ...

A new species of piranha-like fish called pacu was recently found hiding in plain sight among several near-identical species in the Amazon River. Researchers have named it after Sauron from "The ...

A boy in Oklahoma reeled in an alarmingly weird catch this past weekend: a pacu, the South American fish that's a cousin of the piranha — and whose humanlike teeth have long struck fear in swimmers.

Piranha fish are incredible animals that have gotten a bit of a bad reputation over the years. Though relatively small, the fish sport jaws lined with incredibly sharp teeth that they can use to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Piranhas are well known as fearsome, ferocious, food-obsessed hunters of the sea – and have evolved to quickly strip the skeletons of their prey ...