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Piranha
Photo: Close-up of a piranha
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The notoriously voracious piranha lives only in the rivers of South America, primarily the Amazon and Orinoco. Here, a young black piranha in Brazil's Pantanal shows off the source of its notoriety: a mouthful of flesh-tearing teeth.
Photograph by Joel Sartore

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