The fish was later identified as a pacu, native to South America and a relative of the piranha, according to the Arizona Game and Fish Department in Tucson. Game and Fish doesn't stock waterways ...

A resident in the Texas Panhandle caught an invasive fish species that's part of the piranha family. The invasive Pacu fish was captured at the Lake Meredith National Recreation on Tuesday.

Swedish skinny dippers, you may want to pull on your swim trunks. A sharp-toothed pacu fish has been caught in the Danish-Swedish strait of Oresund, putting swimmers on edge because of its ...

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.

Murray Stanford (left) and Kelly Gestring say goodbye to Igor, the deformed Pacu fish. Igor was their adopted pet for more 35 years at the former Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission ...

The invasive pacu fish was captured Tuesday at the Lake Meredith National Recreation Area, which is northeast of Amarillo. More: Venomous prickly fireworms are washing up on Texas beaches.

Mitchell said that, in 26 years, he has seen about 10 to 12 pacu fish in Arizona waters. Game and Fish in Tucson stocks lakes with rainbow trout in cold-weather months and catfish and sunfish in ...

DELRAN, N.J. -- A fish that's native to the Amazon was caught in a pond in South Jersey over the weekend. Ron Rossi from Delran, Burlington County made the rare catch Sunday at Swedes Lake during ...

NEW YORK — Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water, as the saying goes, male skinny-dippers in Scandinavia are being warned about a fish infamous for munching on testicles… ...

The invasive pacu fish was captured Tuesday at the Lake Meredith National Recreation Area, which is northeast of Amarillo. More: Venomous prickly fireworms are washing up on Texas beaches.

The allure of the pacu fish is that it looks so similar to a piranha, Airola said, but its adult size can make it a less-than-ideal pet: The pacu can grow up to 2 feet long.

The invasive pacu fish was captured Tuesday at the Lake Meredith National Recreation Area, which is northeast of Amarillo. More: Venomous prickly fireworms are washing up on Texas beaches.