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.

Alkaloids are important bioactive molecules throughout the natural world, and in many animals they serve as a source of chemical defense against predation. Dendrobatid poison frogs bioaccumulate ...