Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pufferfish served in Kawasaki City - D3_plus D.naruse @ Japan/Getty Images Pufferfish, also known as fugu, is well known for being ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Japanese 10-year-old has become the youngest person authorized to prepare "fugu" pufferfish — a delicacy that can kill if its poisonous parts are not properly removed. Fifth grader Karin Tabira ...