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Pacu fish, native to South America, are known for their humanlike teeth and can grow up to 3 feet (0.9 meters) in length. They are primarily herbivores — feeding on fruits, nuts and plant material — but can occasionally eat small fish and invertebrates.
Pacu and piranha do not have similar teeth, the main difference being jaw alignment; piranha have pointed, razor-sharp teeth in a pronounced underbite, whereas pacu have squarer, straighter teeth and a less severe underbite, or a slight overbite. [1]
Piranha have pointed, razor-sharp teeth whereas pacu have squarer, straighter teeth, that eerily resemble those of humans. Pacu uses its teeth mainly to crush nuts and fruits, but sometimes they also eat other fish and invertebrates.
A boy in Oklahoma reeled in an alarmingly weird catch this past weekend: a pacu, the South American fish that's a cousin of the piranha — and whose humanlike teeth have long struck fear in...
Last year, a young boy in Oklahoma made an unusual discovery – a fish that looks a lot like a piranha but has teeth that strangely resemble human teeth concealed within its fishy mouth. The fish, identified as a pacu, was caught by Charlie Clinton in a pond near his home on July 15.
You will not often find the pacu living wild in North America as this fish with enormous, human-like teeth normally sticks to fresh water homes in the southern hemisphere. Lately, however, it has been known to travel.
A young boy in Oklahoma has caught a bizarre, piranha-like fish with eerily human-like teeth hidden behind its fishy lips.
One of the easiest ways to identify a pacu is by their teeth, which are square and straight. This gives pacu the appearance of having human teeth. A pacu’s flat teeth are excellent for grinding up the seeds and grains that make up a large part of their diet.
One common feature of all breeds of pacu fish is their human-like teeth. Unlike some fish species that have sharp, jagged fangs meant for slicing through their prey, pacu fish have two sets of blunt molars that they use for cracking nuts and grinding up plants.
A new species of piranha-like fish called pacu was recently found hiding in plain sight among several near-identical species in the Amazon River.