The pufferfish is best known for its comical ability to swell into a spiny ball when threatened, but its most formidable defense is invisible. Tucked inside its organs is a toxin so potent that, gram ...

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 ...

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 ...

A BRIT tourist has been rushed to hospital after being bitten by a toxic pufferfish amid mounting alarm over the vicious ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Brazilian man named Magno Sergio Gomes tragically died after ingesting a poisonous pufferfish that packs enough venom to kill 30 ...

A Brazilian man who feasted on one of the most poisonous fishes in the world has died after spending five weeks in hospital fighting for his life, according to reports. Magno Sergio Gomes, 46, and his ...