An Instagram post went viral for showing a pufferfish getting "high" off of pufferfish toxins. Read here to learn more.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1984, Melvin Ferd Junko III was living a lackluster life as a janitor at a Tromaville health club when he unwittingly became ...

A couple and their nephew died after eating cooked puffer fish in Kawayan, Masbate. The fish was reportedly caught accidentally by a local fisherman ...

A new study finds that puffer fish use non-toxic analogs of their famous defense poison for signalling and communication through smell, with implications for the study of their spawning and ...

LEGAZPI CITY — Three people died on Saturday after eating puffer fish, locally known as “butete,” in Cawayan town in Masbate ...

Pufferfish can be served for human consumption as a delicacy called fugu. It is especially popular in Japan, but you may also see it available in other countries, including Korea, China, Singapore, ...

A man in Illinois has pleaded guilty to posing as a doctor in order to purchase the poisonous toxin found in puffer fish for “use as a weapon.” Edward Bachner was arrested in 2008 and charged with ...

Public health officials in Hong Kong have investigated a number of recent food poisoning cases linked to a range of different foods. Earlier this week, the Centre for Health Protection Almost 30 cases ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago man was sentenced Monday to more than 7½ years in prison for obtaining a deadly puffer-fish toxin to deploy as a weapon, which federal authorities once accused ...