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 extreme investigators at How to Survive uncover the truth about dangerous candiru fish and whether swarms are a real ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The vampire fish, or candiru is known for being a parasite, sucking the blood of larger fish, and in one unusual case, swimming up a person's urethra. However, a new study suggests that this species ...