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.

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 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.

The a-pacu-lypse is upon us.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 ...

An invasive, testicle-chomping South American pacu fish with human-like teeth was caught and released by an 11-year-old Oklahoma boy who shouldn't have thrown it back into the pond.

The a-pacu-lypse is upon us. 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 ...

An unusual invasive fish with chompers that bear an eerie resemblance to human teeth was reeled in from a Texas lake this week. Known as a pacu fish, the South American freshwater species are ...

A new fish species with a mark that resembles "The Eye of Sauron" from "The Lord of the Rings" has been named by researchers in the Amazon after a genetic analysis.

A pacu, a piranha-like fish with human-like teeth native to South America, was caught by a boy in a pond in Oklahoma, officials say.

A pacu, an invasive fish that has human-like teeth, was caught by a boy in Oklahoma. Pacu are also referred to as “vegetarian piranhas” because they do not eat meat, McClatchy News reported in ...

The pacu, a South American freshwater fish that is a relative of the piranha, was likely released from an aquarium, officials say. ... Scary fish with human-like teeth found in Texas lake.