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) — 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 ...
A turtle took its chances at a meal by striking a cornered pufferfish. Little did the turtle know that the pufferfish had ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...