The star of a Japanese dish called fugu is a puffer fish that produces toxins so deadly that it can kill if prepared improperly. Yet the delicacy is so popular that overfishing may be pushing one ...

Scientists say the mother fish pass the potent toxin to the developing fish in the ovaries Every year two to three people in Japan die and more are sickened after eating puffer-fish sashimi Other ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is once again warning anglers to keep an eye out for a type of fish they don’t want to find on their hooks. The ...

The brother and sister showed up in the emergency room with odd symptoms – numb teeth, weakness and, most frightening, troubled breathing. They’d eaten banned, deadly poisonous pufferfish. There ...

Documentary shows dolphins in trance-like state after snacking on puffer fish. Jan. 1, 2014— -- Adventurous eaters may get a rush out of flirting with death by eating a piece of puffer fish, but ...

Last week’s Off the Hook feature opened Brittany Kirkland’s eyes. The story on 9-year-old Kylie Jenkins’ oceanic puffer fish had Kirkland thinking back to a day 11 years ago, when she caught a fish ...

Ill. man allegedly bought puffer fish toxin to use as a weapon against his wife. Aug. 27, 2008— -- A suburban Chicago man pleaded not guilty to charges that he purchased deadly puffer fish toxin ...

A man is in a critical condition in a hospital in Hong Kong after consuming puffer fish and suffering suspected tetrodotoxin poisoning. The 65-year-old man developed facial numbness, general weakness ...