The poison found in pufferfish, blowfish, balloon fish, toads, sunfish, porcupine fish, toadfish, globefish, and swellfish is a tetrodotoxin. This is one of the most toxic poisons found in nature.

The author holds a porcupine pufferfish, Diodon holocanthus. Chris knew the fugu story, and as I photographed our little porcupine pufferfish, he said, “Is it safe to hold barehanded like that?” ...

A powerful nor'easter pounded New England last week, prompting coastal evacuations and causing flooding so extreme that water rushed into downtown Boston. In the storm's aftermath, a local, ...

Since February, something has been killing Hawaii’s pufferfish. The cause of the deaths isn’t known, but local researchers are working to find it. Because Hawaii hosts 14 species of pufferfish and ...