This is only the second time the species has been recorded while alive. “I thought it was A.I.,” says fish biologist Kory Evans.

Marine animals use venom either to kill their ... accounts for about 90 percent of human deaths from sea snake bites. Puffer fish are named as such because, when threatened, they ingest a huge ...

But if you peer inside a puffer, you'll learn that puffing up isn't the only trait that makes these fish one of the most threatening creatures in the sea. Contrary to what it looks like ...

Yet only the toughest species such as tiger sharks, common octopus and sea snakes will take on a puffer ... the fish can swell to an almost spherical shape, three or four times their usual size.

Puffer is a species of fish that contains nerve toxins (neurotoxins) known as tetrodotoxin (TTX), which is also found in some marine species like horseshoe crabs and sea snails (Naticidae ...