As you may have read last week in “Denver Aquarium Unequipped to Handle Piranha Attacks or Reporter Queries,” on a recent visit to the Downtown Aquarium I was disturbed to discover just how easy it ...

A close up picture of two piranha fish with their sharp triangular teeth exposed. A school of piranhas attacked holiday makers playing in a stream in a Brazilian resort on May 1, leaving at least ...

WOODBURY HEIGHTS — Virginia Dredden has always been a better fisherman than her son, Ronald Meekins. So when she cast her line into Glen Lake Monday afternoon and quickly caught a fish, Meekins wasn’t ...

Federal prosecutors have this criminal fish importer in their jaws. The importer, Joel Rakower, pleaded guilty today in Brooklyn’s federal court for intentionally mislabeling imported piranhas, the ...

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SHELBY, Ohio — A state wildlife official said the tooth-bearing fish found in Shelby Reservoir No. 3 on Wednesday likely was a discarded pet, and probably the only such fish swimming in the water.

Piranhas have long had a bad rap, known globally as the predatory, fearsome, and ferocious food scavengers of the sea, able to strip their prey to its skeleton in seconds. According to President ...

Two New Hampshire anglers got a surprise over the weekend when they caught what looked like a piranha in a local pond.Jacob Wurm, 17, of Manchester, was fishing at Tate Pond with his stepfather, Steve ...

A teenager from South Carolina has reportedly caught a fish that resembles a piranha, and it has resulted in a warning from wildlife authorities in the state. Drew Patrick, 15, of Anderson, South ...

RALEIGH, NC (WIS) - A Raleigh man thought he had come upon a 10-inch piranha in a North Carolina river. But an expert says it was more likely just a pacu. The News and Observer of Raleigh reported ...

The pacu fish, a South American relative of the carnivorous piranha characterized by its distinct human-like teeth, has been showing up unexpectedly in Michigan lakes. On Aug. 9, the Michigan ...