There are plenty of things in this world you really shouldn’t touch, and especially eat, if you value your health. In some ...

Since it only takes a small amount of poison to kill a man, simply touching these creatures can be lethal. The poison is a batrachotoxin, present in only a few other organisms, like the Pitohui bird.

This work eventually revealed that the pitohui possessed “batrachotoxin,” a poisonous substance found in some species of frogs, including poison dart frogs located half a world away in Colombia.