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.

Netflix has a new documentary dropping that follows the heartwarming journey of a puffer fish, as big as a fingernail, navigating its first year of life on the reef. Puff: Wonders of the Reef, which ...

"Everywhere you look, tiny stories are unfolding." So cute!! Netflix has unveiled the trailer for a new nature documentary titled Puff: Wonders of the Reef, formerly known as Microworlds: Reef. This ...

The puffer fish, or Fugu rubripes, is an ideal candidate for genome research because its genetic code is so short. Although it contains many of the same genes that the human genom ...

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A bite of puffer fish can paralyze and kill a human, but dolphins have been seen using the spiky lethal creatures as a chew toy, leading humans to wonder if the sea mammals were getting a buzz off the ...