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 ...

Google says these fish are dangerous. Many fishermen won't even touch them. But in parts of Florida, experienced anglers have been eating checkered pufferfish for years. After catching three ...

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 ...

Pufferfish is regarded as a luxury in Japan and a meal featuring the potentially poisonous delicacy can easily cost up to 20,000 yen ($125) at high-end restaurants. But now, adventurous foodies in ...

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 ...

It’s a generally lamentable truism that everything delicious — be it bacon, hamburgers, or sugar — will slowly kill you. Some delicacies, however, skip the gradual decline. Yes, extremely so! The ...

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 ...

An elderly couple has died after eating poisonous pufferfish in Malaysia, prompting an appeal from their daughter for stronger laws to prevent others from suffering the same fate. Ng Chuan Sing and ...