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 on Sunday. The fish, dubbed a pacu ...

Piranhas belong to a family of bony fish characterized by highly developed dentition. They’re cousins to the pacu fish, which has dentition eerily similar to human teeth. Unlike pacu teeth, which are ...

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 ...

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.

Pacu, an invasive fish with human-like teeth similar similar to a piranha, was caught at Lake Meredith National Recreation Area in Texas.

His friend Anton Efimov, 60, said "We know Aleks can tell some tall tales but when he came in and said he had a fish with human teeth we thought he’d certainly been drinking.