A recent scientific study takes a look at the intriguing ability of male Japanese pufferfish. The incredible fish utilize a fascinating mating ritual that involves engineering complex designs in the ...

Pufferfish have a couple of ways to defend themselves: They have an incredibly potent toxin in their flesh, and they can puff themselves out into a spine-covered ball that’s pretty difficult to eat.

Biologists have found out why the Malabar dwarf pufferfish (Carinotetraodon travancoricus) has low fecundity — it produces just a few eggs a day and spawns in batches 1. This finding could have ...