Stone age humans were using poison for hunting far longer than previously believed. In A Nutshell Chemical traces survived ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Some poisons are known for creeping slowly through the ...

Researchers from South Africa and Sweden have found the oldest traces of arrow poison in the world to date. On ...

New research reveals traces of plant toxins on arrow tips in South Africa, suggesting that the technique was used tens of ...

The discovery that small stone arrow tips were treated with plant poison 60,000 years ago means that ancient African hunters ...

Only a small fraction of all plants are edible. Some of those that aren’t can do serious damage to a human’s health. Here are ten plants to stay away from, and never ingest. The American landscape may ...

Archaeologists have now found traces of a plant-based poison on several 60,000-year-old quartz Stone Age arrowheads found in ...

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