RIO NEGRO, Brazil (WTHR) - One of the most popular things to do in the Amazon rainforest is fishing for piranha. In Sept. 2015, photographer Steve Rhodes and I spent several days at the Anavilhanas ...

"The fish act defensively." Authorities issue warning after piranhas attack mother and infant in broad daylight: 'A ...

Six years ago, the fish ecologist Rodney Rountree was on a skiff in the Peruvian Amazon. He was holding a piranha in his hand…underwater…in a river filled with ...

Speaking of the Amazon River, it is the world's largest river, but if you go to tributaries you can enjoy various activities such as jungle trekking and piranha fishing. The Amazon River filled the ...

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A giant piranha has been found in a British river today, nearly 7,000 away from its native home in the Amazon River. Environment Agency fisheries workers found the dead killer fish in the East Okement ...

This giant red bellied piranha has swum a long way from its native waters of the Amazon - to Devon. The 14in fish died after being dumped in the River Torridge near East Okemont. The Environment ...

A freshwater Amazonian fish has evolved scales with microscopic armorlike structures specially designed to resist a piranha's piercing bite, new research shows. Arapaima gigas is the largest — and ...

Researchers in a California biomechanics lab recently staged what should have been the most lopsided freshwater cage match of all time. In one corner was a red ...

South America’s piranha family of fish — notorious as eaters of flesh — can be traced back to a single ancestor which dispersed when the Amazon was flooded by seawater some five million years ago, ...

'When you remove the hook from its mouth, make sure you throw the piranha back quick,' said Antonio, showing me a circular scar on his finger. 'Look, I got bitten. I had to slit its throat and ...