Pufferfish can be served for human consumption as a delicacy called fugu. It is especially popular in Japan, but you may also see it available in other countries, including Korea, China, Singapore, ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – If you’re planning a fishing trip along the New England coast this summer, officials are reminding people about the dangers of catching a certain type of puffer fish recently ...

Biologists have found out why the Malabar dwarf pufferfish (Carinotetraodon travancoricus) has low fecundity — it produces just a few eggs a day and spawns in batches 1. This finding could have ...

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 ...