From the brightly colored poison frogs of South America to the prehistoric-looking newts of the Western US, the world is filled with beautiful, deadly amphibians. Just a few milligrams of the newt’s ...

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Sometimes, the cutest animals are the deadliest. From the brightly colored golden poison dart frog that secretes a lethal neurotoxin to the Cookie Monster-lookalike fish that hides a deadly ability, ...

“Instead, the poison helped hunters reduce the time and energy needed to track and exhaust a wounded animal.” Two different alkaloids, or organic plant compounds, found in the poisonous chemical ...

New Guinea - Researchers recently discovered two new species of poisonous birds during an expedition into the jungles of New Guinea. According to the University of Copenhagen, Knud Jønsson and his ...

Dan Burton has trapped hundreds of wild pigs for clients of his wildlife control company in Salinas, but even he was startled when he cut one of them open and found blue meat inside. "I'm not talking ...

(CNN) — Scientists have detected traces of plant toxins on Stone Age arrowheads that were used by hunter-gatherers in South Africa about 60,000 years ago. The find marks the oldest known poison arrows ...