Needlefish are mostly found in shallow waters near the shore and can leap out of the water to strike when they feel threatened Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...

Move over Jaws — there’s a new deadly fish in town. Last week, a swimmer was stabbed in the leg by an Atlantic needlefish while swimming off the Jersey coast, police said. The rare clash between human ...

Off the east coast of Australia, fish are doing something funny. On two separate occasions, biologist Ryan Day has seen needlefish employ a novel hunting tactic, launching themselves out of the water ...

HILO, Hawaii (KHON2) — Chad Cabral has spent most of his life on the water. Born and raised in Hilo, he’s been paddling since he was 10-years-old. Download the free KHON2 app for iOS or Android to ...

A Thai soldier who was training with special forces tragically died after he was speared in the neck by a needlefish A THAI soldier was killed in a freak accident when he was speared through the neck ...

A dramatic image of a dolphin battling what appeared to be a snake off South Carolina’s coast March 1 turned out to be an encounter of an even stranger kind. The female dolphin was playing with -- and ...

A teenager was impaled by a flying needlefish while out on his boat. Muhammad Idul was fishing in the waters off Wakinamboro village in the South Buton regency in southern Indonesia when the ...

This brings new meaning to spearfishing. A tourist was left in serious condition after a needlefish impaled him in the neck while he was swimming in Thailand. The freak accident reportedly occurred ...