The Spotted Porcupine Fish, as illustrated by Albertus Seba, 1731. The name “Blowfish” is a clumsy non-scientific term that includes two very different groups of related fishes. The true pufferfishes, ...

You won't meet a more charming photobomber than this startled porcupine fish. One evening in November, photographer Andrey Nekrasov was on a dive looking for nocturnal wildlife, near Sharm al-Sheik in ...

Researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and colleagues compared fossil porcupine fish jaws and tooth plates collected on expeditions to Panama, Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil with ...

The spot-fin porcupinefish rescued by SeaWorld San Diego in this photo released by the rescuers. SeaWorld San Diego has rescued a rare spot-fin porcupinefish found swimming near the surface off Point ...

Gavin Hanke reaches a gloved hand into the formaldehyde tank at the Royal British Columbia Museum very, very carefully. The spotted porcupine — a type of pufferfish — is almost 25 centimetres long. It ...

If you ask me, it looks like an old World War II submarine mine… tentacles sticking out everywhere, ready to explode when anything touches them. According to inventor Larry Harper however, the only ...

The author holds a porcupine pufferfish, Diodon holocanthus. Chris knew the fugu story, and as I photographed our little porcupine pufferfish, he said, “Is it safe to hold barehanded like that?” ...

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A hungry shark that tried to swallow a spiny porcupine fish suffocated on its supper, as the prickly mouthful got hooked halfway into the shark's gullet and blocked the predator's gills. The ...

Gavin Hanke reaches a gloved hand into the formaldehyde tank at the Royal British Columbia Museum very, very carefully. What emerges is a B.C. Gavin Hanke reaches a gloved hand into the formaldehyde ...