How are pufferfish helping us understand our own evolution? By mapping synteny in their short genome, scientists can find evolutionary patterns through this example of comparative genomics. Aa Aa Aa ...

Pufferfish are known for their strange and extreme skin ornaments, but how they came to possess the spiky skin structures known as spines has largely remained a mystery. Now, researchers have ...

Pufferfish have an iconic defence mechanism, but there’s more to these famous inflatables than meets the eye. Their potent poison has a fearsome reputation, linking daredevil diners, drug-user ...