All eyes are on a puffer fish in Ohio that was given cataract surgery. The unnamed puffer at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium underwent cataract surgery on Tuesday after doctors diagnosed the fish with ...

A delicacy in Japanese cuisine, puffer fish (fugu) also contain a lethal toxin. Improperly prepared puffer fish can cause the person eating it to experience food poisoning and a swift death. Such a ...

The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management and the Rhode Island Saltwater Anglers Association are warning about a potentially deadly catch fishermen are increasingly hauling out of Rhode ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is once again warning anglers to keep an eye out for a type of fish they don’t want to find on their hooks. The ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — There are plenty of fish in the sea, and the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) issued a warning to stay away from one in particular. The DEM and the ...

The pufferfish caught in a net in this fascinating YouTube clip gives a perfect demonstration of how they ‘puff’ their bodies up. One moment it looks like a regular fish, and the next it resembles a ...

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 ...

EVERETT — When Puffer the aptly-named pufferfish first came to the Everett Public Library, the highest grossing movie of the year was “Shrek 2,” the top two songs on the Billboard charts were ...

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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 ...