There are over 120 species of puffer fish, and 22 different kinds are approved by the Japanese government for use in restaurants. But one is more prized, and more poisonous, than the others ...

found in Japan.” Akihito found the species among the fish he caught on Zamamijima and Iriomotejima islands in Okinawa Prefecture between 2001 and 2008, and began studying them around 2017 ...

Off the coast of Japan, a small, spikey orange fish was caught on the end of a fishing ... from anything they’d seen before, and it’s a species new to science. Phenacoscorpius trispinis ...

which is completely unrelated to species of edible fish, such as Japanese pilchard or Japanese anchovy. But the four fish have a number of distinctive morphological characteristics. They're huge ...