Pufferfish myth busted—they do so breathe when puffed up

Thursday, December 4, 2014 - 10:00 in Biology & Nature

A pair of researchers, one with James Cook University the other the Australian Institute of Marine Science has shown that the common myth that pufferfish don't breathe when puffed up, is completely wrong. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, marine scientists Georgia McGee and Timothy Clark describe their study of the quirky fish and how they disproved the myth.

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