With its protruding belly and clumsy fins, the tiger puffer fish looks as dangerous as a pet-store goldfish. ... predators spit out the larvae of the deadly blue-ringed octopus, ...

Crucially, the fish uses only 350 million base pairs to code for the genes, lacking most of the junk DNA in the human genome. JGI’s Dan Rokhsar says, “It’s almost like the human genome ...

The Leopard Toby is usually found in the waters of the Philippines, Indonesia, Guam and Micronesia, no but this is the first time it has been spotted in Australia.

Like other puffer fish, the grass puffer accumulates the neurotoxin TTX to discourage would-be predators. However, grass puffers also accumulate a non-toxic analog of TTX called 5,6,11-trideoxyTTX ...

Puffer fish fins are seen drying in the sun and wind along the Kanmon Strait in the western Japan city of Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Dec. 4, 2019. (Mainichi/Takashi Kamiiriki ...

An 83-year-old Malaysian woman died and her 84-year-old husband is fighting for his life in the hospital after they ate puffer fish last week, according to a news report.. The couple’s daughter ...

Anglers are again being warned about a poisonous fish in Rhode Island waters. Some people eat smooth puffer fish, and some consider them a delicacy, but they're "a serious threat to your health if ...