Thursday, 2 October 2014

Fish with a mouth full of human teeth found in Russian river




It's the stuff of nightmares: Fish with a set of human teeth found
A fisherman recently had something to smile (or scream) about when he caught a fish that had a set of human looking teeth in it’s mouth.
Angler Aleks Korobov, 50, snared the fish on the Northern Dvina River in north-western Russia’s Arkhangelsk Oblast district, thinking it was just a normal bream.
However when he opened the mouth of his catch he saw a full set of gnashers gleaming back at him.
‘I opened its gills which were nice and red but I noticed the mouth wasn’t right for a bream and when I opened it I nearly dropped the thing in surprise,’ he said.
Aleks quickly rushed to the pub to show his friends what he had found.
Naturally they thought he had been drinking and was making it up at first, until he plopped the toothy river dweller on the table for them to witness.

Pic shows: This fish with teeth like human was caught by fish angler Aleks Korobov.nnFishy angler Aleks Korobov, 50, was brushed off by locals when he told them he had caught a fish with teeth like a human - until he plonked it on the table in front of them.nnAleks, from the city of Arkhangelsk in north-western Russia's Arkhangelsk Oblast district, had been on the Northern Dvina River when he hooked what he thought was a common bream.nnBut when he went to unhook it he saw it had a mouth full of what looked just like human gnashers.nnHe said: "It was already dead but when I picked it up and smelt it, I could tell it was fresh.nn"I then opened its gills which were nice and red but I noticed the mouth wasn¿t right for a bream and when I opened it I nearly dropped the thing in surprise.nn"Inside were a load of human teeth."nnHe then rushed back to his local pub to share his catch and to see what his fishing pals thought.nnPpal Anton Efimov, 60, said: "We know Aleks can tell some tall tales but when he came in and said he had a fish with human teeth we thought he¿d certainly been drinking.nn"But then he got it out and we were totally shocked.nn"None of us had ever seen anything like it in our lives."nnAleks then contacted the Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography for their expert opinion.nnInstitute expert Gennady Dvorykankin said: "We had to do an autopsy and carry out a series of examinations to determine the species and an explanation for the teeth.nn"We are convinced it is a member of the Piranha family, and that it is a herbivore piranha, not one of the meat eating ones you see in films.nn"It is very unlikely that it made its way from its natural tropical waters to our Arctic and then into the river so we can only assume it was dumped by an owner of exotic fish," he added.nnChuffed Aleks said: "I don¿t think people will be doubting my fishing stories again after this."nn(ends)  n     n

After bragging about his catch Aleks contacted the Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography who will carry out an autopsy on the fish to try and find out how it got its pearly whites.
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