Pufferfish are well-known for their ability to “puff up” into a round, sometimes spiky ball. Some people also know them for the poison their bodies hold. These unique fish are usually found in shallow ...

You wouldn’t think a blunt head puffer is a fish that could inspire tender sentiment, but one brought tears to a few eyes at the 91st Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo. A blunt head puffer caught by ...

When you are diving and see this slow-moving 15-inch-long fish, look but don’t touch! The puffer-fish has a very-deadly neurotoxin in its skin that is over 1,000 times more powerful than cyanide. This ...

A new study finds that puffer fish use non-toxic analogs of their famous defense poison for signalling and communication through smell, with implications for the study of their spawning and ...

The more we learn about the animals we share the planet with, the more we realize how fascinating their behavior can be. In 1995, divers off the coast of Japan discovered intricate crop circles ...

Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is best known as the neurotoxin of the puffer fish, though it also appears in a range of other marine species. You might remember it from an episode of The Simpsons involving a ...