This subject, which was highlighted in a 2007 episode of 'Grey's Anatomy,' is not for the squeamish: 1. Something in the water: The candiru, also known as the vampire fish and toothpick fish, is a ...

The Amazon River basin’s most notorious bloodsuckers may not be all drama and gore after all. New findings suggest that some candiru—the vampire fish—may have a more benign relationship with their ...

The candiru became the most famous catfish in the world in 1997, when an icthyologist read a medical report about a man who had to have this toothpick-shaped fish removed from his urethra. The truth ...

This is in reference to your column “Can the candiru fish swim upstream into your urethra?” (May 19, 2000). I recently heard a talk by a visiting scholar who was researching the candiru. The speaker ...

David Beckham was warned off swimming in the Amazon during the recent shooting of a documentary — for fear of a deadly fish swimming into his genitalia, sources tell Confidenti@l. The 38-year-old ...

Scientists report a vampire fish attached to the body of an Amazonian thorny catfish. Very unusually, the candirus were attached close to the lateral bone plates, rather than the gills, where they are ...

The Candiru is a terrifying fish. This small catfish uses its circular mouth and sharp teeth to bite flesh and then enter organisms, leaving behind a wound that looks uncannily like a bullet hole. But ...

A team of researchers with Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande and Washington and Lee University has found evidence of candiru (aka vampire fish) attaching themselves ...