Modern day piranhas are well-known for stripping a corpse in minutes!
(01:18)What did the prime-evil monster called mega piranha look like?
A team of scientists head to the Xingu River in the Amazon basin to find out what damage the jaws of the ancient Mega piranha would have been capable of doing by catching and studying its modern-day relatives.
Mega Piranha premieres on Tuesday 13 December at 8pm.
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