Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1984, Melvin Ferd Junko III was living a lackluster life as a janitor at a Tromaville health club when he unwittingly became ...

At feeding time, Dale – a freshwater Mbu puffer, one of the largest puffer fish species – flaps his fins like oversized wings and glides toward his tank corner. Mason Edwards is the breaking news ...

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 ...

Scientists say the mother fish pass the potent toxin to the developing fish in the ovaries Every year two to three people in Japan die and more are sickened after eating puffer-fish sashimi Other ...

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 ...