Tambaqui fish are found in the Amazon and belong to the pacu and red piranha family. Known for their strong teeth, they can grow ... and likely influenced by human behaviour.

Oct. 3 (UPI) --An angler casting his line in a Maryland creek reeled in something highly unusual for the state: a fish with a full set of human-like teeth. Jeremy Cooper said he initially thought ...

The pacu fish was caught at the lake near Amarillo ... straight teeth that “look startlingly like human teeth.” READ MORE: 'Your worst nightmares': Stinging fireworms washing up on Texas ...

Pacu mainly feed on plant material and also like to munch on seeds and nuts, which is why they have teeth that "look similar to human teeth," according to the museum. Staff believe the fish was ...

Pacu are vegetarians and have teeth that look similar to human teeth, the museum said. Officials believe the fish was released into the lake by someone who may have owned it as a pet. Pacu fish ...

Meet the Pacu fish, a distant relative of the piranha who was recently spotted in Lake Meredith in Sanford, Texas with one distinguishable feature.... their weird human teeth! The name Pacu refers ...

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 pacu, a freshwater fish native to South America ... pacu “have teeth that look similar to human teeth,” officials said. Texas Parks and Wildlife officials said in 2012 a nearly 8-pound ...