Arothron multilineatus from Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Credit: Matsuura 2016/Kimiaki Ito It’s not every day that a new species of large pufferfish is described from Indo-Pacific coral reefs, but such is the case with the Arothron multilineatus, a girthy fish documented from Japan and the Red Sea. [...]
Porcupine pufferfish (Diodon holocanthus)Circumtropical in distribution and ascribed more common names than one can possibly keep straight (spiny puffer, porcupine puffer, porcupinefish, longspined porcupinefish, and balloon porcupinefish, to list but a few), Diodon holocanthus can be a worthy, [...]
Upon viewing footage of the courtship before narration, Attenborough had this to say, “I promise you I speak the literal truth when I say I was shocked when I saw it,” he says. “Had I not known who filmed it, I would swear it was a fake, done by computer imagery. It’s like an enormously [...]
