"I mean, nothing with human-like teeth." It turned out that Charlie had landed a pacu, a fish that's a cousin of the piranha — and whose outsized teeth have long struck fear in swimmers.

"Dear whoever released an entire Pacu (a South American fish closely related to Piranha) into a NEIGHBORHOOD pond, how dare you," the department wrote. North Carolina Man Catches Fish With Human ...

The Myloplus genus falls within the Serrasalmidae fish family, which is made up of piranha and pacu species. Because piranhas and pacus are closely related and have similar features ...

pacus have been labeled the "vegetarian piranhas" because of the fish's human-like teeth. The newest addition to the pacu family was discovered swimming in the Amazon River and has a marking on ...

Wildlife department officials posted on social media that an 11-year-old Oklahoma boy caught a pacu, which is a South American fish that's closely related to piranhas, in a neighborhood pond.

A boy from Oklahoma hooked a pacu, an invasive fish native to South America. Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation A boy was in for a surprise when he hooked a piranha-like fish in an ...

A resident in the Texas Panhandle caught in a local lake an invasive fish species that's part of the piranha family. The invasive pacu fish was captured Tuesday at the Lake Meredith National ...

A Piranha like fish was caught in Lake Meredith. According to the Lake Meredith Aquatic & Wildlife Museum, a pacu fish was caught Sunday. They believe it was released into the lake by someone who ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto An invasive fish species related to the piranha was caught in a Texas lake, wildlife officials said. A pacu, a freshwater fish native to South America, was caught Aug. 25 ...