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 ...

A small but deadly fish, the Needlefish has been making headlines for rare but serious attacks on swimmers and fishermen.

The family and friends of famed Italian surfer Giulia Manfrini are in mourning after the 36 year old's death. Manfrini was killed in what is being described as a "freak accident" after being stabbed ...

A surfer died last week after being impaled by a fish off Indonesia's West Sumatra coast, leaving surfers and swimmers to wonder whether it's not just sharks they need to fear in the ocean. Giulia ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...