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 ...

Drum fish are given their unique name not because they have drums in their bodies but because they let out croaker sounds ...

The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources on Wednesday asked its social media followers to identify a fish with “human-like” teeth.

As reports surface of a fish caught in Russia with teeth resembling those of a human, it's worth remembering that our species doesn't have a special claim to square, straight teeth.

When people think of fish, with very few exceptions, they rarely think of big teeth.A fisherman in North Carolina, however, shocked beachgoers when he reeled in a fish with a huge smile.

No, it’s not Photoshop; this fish has human-like teeth. Meet the sheepshead fish — Archosargus probatocephalus. While this fish made quite a stir in 2021 after an angler posted an image of the fish on ...

The teeth sit outside of the mouth, interlocking, with two large lower fangs that curl upward reaching past the fish’s eyes. Because its jaw can unhinge, the viperfish can eat large prey for its ...

In fact, this fish loses 20 teeth and grows them all back in one day, researchers say. With a face only a mother could love, the lingcod, with its large head and mouth, can grow up to 5 feet and ...

One fish, two fish. Green fish, blue fish. Outer teeth, inner teeth. These fish grow a lot of teeth. By Annie Roth If there is one place you don’t want to stick your finger, it’s the mouth of ...

Teeth first evolved as sensory organs, not for chewing, according to a new analysis of animal fossils.The first tooth-like structures seem to have been sensitive nodules on the skin of early fish ...