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Welcome the world’s smallest pufferfish, the pea pufferfish, aka Malabar pufferfish, pygmy pufferfish, dwarf pufferfish, or pea puffer. These freshwater puffers hail from the lakes, estuaries, and rivers of Kerala and southern Karnataka in the Western Ghats of Peninsular India. Unfortunately for these cute little critters they are subjected to […]

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This article was originally published on Critter Science.

With more than 120 known species, puffer fish, aka Tetraodontidae, are quite diverse, beautiful, slow-moving, and can be deadly! Many puffer fish use tetrodotoxin as a defense and that neurotoxin is up to 1,200 times more potent than cyanide! That being said puffers are, nonetheless, on the menu only if […]

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