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46 swimmers hospitalized after piranha attack in Argentina

Séamus Bellamy
Feb 12, 2026
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Piranha (guentermanaus/Shutterstock)

Thanks largely to Roger Corman’s craptacular 1976 movie Piranha and its sequels, flesh-eating fish were top of mind for many Generation X kids. They appeared in pulp literature, Far Side cartoons, and on TV through the mid-1990s. Then they kinda disappeared from the zeitgeist. But the kids are all retro these days. So…

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