Particularly troubling is the number of smalltooth sawfish that are dying as scientists estimate there are only a few hundred ...

For the erratic, spinning behavior, scientists have speculated it may be related to a toxin called gambierdiscus, which ...

Humans aren’t the only species capable of some bizarre behavior. Our animal friends can also execute actions that are very surprising as well as disturbing. For instance, in the waters off the Florida ...

First, fish off the Florida Keys starting swimming in spirals or upside down. Then, endangered sawfish started dying.

“I actually asked one of our vendors about ta‘ape and they said they don’t usually sell it because they don’t want to run into any fish carrying ciguatera toxin,” he said. “Whenever we ...

"Some fishing guides started seeing these whirling fish around Big Pine Key," said Mike Parsons, a Florida Gulf Coast ...

Scientists are continuing to rule out what it could be, and will soon test the toxin ciguatera to see if it could be the source. Algae carry natural toxins, which may harm fish in environmentally ...

Amanda Austrin is still sick after eating contaminated fish in 2011. Photo / Alan Gibson A man who suffered ciguatera poisoning after eating contaminated fish says the toxin stayed in his body for ...

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Mote Marine staff and scientists with FWC responded on April 5 to a report of a sawfish acting oddly in Cudjoe Bay in the ...

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Mike Parsons is a professor and researcher at Florida Gulf Coast University, and he's an expert in ciguatera, which is typically talked about when discussing food borne illnesses in humans.