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 ...

CEDAR LAKE, Ind. (CBS)-- A retiree from Chicago thought he had the fish story of a lifetime in hand: a deadly Piranha in the waters of Cedar Lake, Ind. But like most fish stories, this one didn't turn ...

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 ...

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A Jacksonville bricklayer’s catch of a supposedly flesh-eating piranha in a St. Johns River tributary turned out to be a case of mistaken identity. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission experts ...

Man-eating fish invade Detroit! OK, that’s a stretch. But there really is a school of piranhas that's new in town, and just getting to know a big glass tank at Detroit’s Belle Isle. They’re the latest ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A piranha-like fish with a purported taste ...

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 ...

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 ...

SHELBY, Ohio — Coleman Browning could tell right away that what he caught while fishing in a reservoir Wednesday afternoon was not supposed to be there. If the eyes and the size of the fish weren't ...