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 ...

A recent scientific study takes a look at the intriguing ability of male Japanese pufferfish. The incredible fish utilize a fascinating mating ritual that involves engineering complex designs in the ...

Pufferfish may be used as comic relief in cartoons, swelling to three times their size when scared. But pufferfish are deadly. The poison in a single pufferfish can kill up to 30 humans. Yet in some ...

The puzzle--and joy--of evolutionary biology is to find the lost paths that life took to arrive at the strange forms it has today. Take, for example, the pufferfish. At first sight, it seems miserably ...