A rare pacu with human-like teeth chomped down on the worm at the end of her line while she was fishing with her grandparents and brother in an Oklahoma lake. But Kennedy Smith isn't exaggerating when she describes her catch. Caddo County Game Warden Tyler Howser confirms that the fish was a pacu, a relative of the piranha that is native to South America and can grow up to 22 kilograms.

Kennedy's fish weighed about half a kilogram, according to Howser and Kennedy's grandmother Sandra Whaley. Kennedy says she initially was "really excited" to have caught a fish Sunday in Fort Cobb Lake, about 89 kilometres southwest of Oklahoma City. She was shocked when the fish bit her grandmother, as Whaley removed the hook from its mouth.