"How dare you," the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation wrote in a tweet addressed to the fish's former owner Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

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 resemblance ...

What is a Pacu fish? The Pacu is a South American freshwater fish that's related to piranha but has key differences. The fish is vegetarian and has teeth that look similar to those of humans. The Pacu ...

Last month’s reported catch of a 36-pound second cousin to the feared South American piranha has revived speculation that there could be a permanent colony of the fish in the St. Johns River. The yard ...

In the piranha- infested waters of the Amazon, a baby Black Pacu, the vegetarian cousin of the flesh-eating fish survives capture. If it had nine lives, its next one was in a tropical aquarium in a ...

A 37-year-old pacu fish and icon to tiki fans has found a home after nearly a year of living in a closed Rosemead restaurant. The property’s current owners decided Monday they would keep Rufus and ...

The appearance of a Brazilian fish has sent a chill through summertime swimmers in Sweden and Denmark. The alarming fish isn't the much-feared piranha but its cousin, the pacu, which has large teeth ...

A Tucson fisherman had an unexpected catch of the day this month when he reeled in a fish with odd teeth. Jeff Evans, who was fishing on the north side of Tucson's Silverbell Lake on Jan. 12, told the ...