When you are diving and see this slow-moving 15-inch-long fish, look but don’t touch! The puffer-fish has a very-deadly neurotoxin in its skin that is over 1,000 times more powerful than cyanide.

University of Hawaii and U.S. Geological Survey researchers returned two months later. The determined that 4.4 percent of each treated colony was affected by the disease.

LDSD borrows that design from the Hawaiian puffer fish to increase size, or more specifically, surface area. That surface area is needed to slow a space craft entering a planet’s atmosphere, or ...

The fish stores the toxin in its skin, liver, intestines and gonads, making some people believe that if cleaned properly, the flesh, called fugu in Japanese, is safe to eat.

Nasukarasuyama-based company Yumesozo, which cultivates the tiger puffer in water from a hot spring, launched its business in the neighboring town of Naka­gawa about 10 years ago.

Puffer is a dog-faced pufferfish, whose life expectancy is about 10 years in the wild, Wallis said. She’s seen children grow to young adults who come into the library and are surprised Puffer ...