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, ...
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 ...
You won't meet a more charming photobomber than this startled porcupine fish. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. One evening in ...
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?” ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...