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 ...

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, 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 ...

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.

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

Unlike the jagged, sharp teeth of their piranha relatives, pacu “have teeth that look similar to human teeth,” officials said. Texas Parks and Wildlife officials said in 2012 a nearly 8-pound ...