You walk out one chilly spring morning, coffee in hand, and there they are.Those knobbly pink rhubarb noses, punching up ...

Hunter-gatherers in South Africa were coating their stone-tipped arrows with deadly plant toxins at least 60,000 years ago, according to chemical analysis of ancient weapons unearthed from a rock ...

They’re just these little death bombs, waiting for any wildlife that is going to investigate,” said one ecologist.

Inadequate federal funding, disjointed communication, dangerous conditions and more are leaving thousands of grow sites to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Boophone disticha. Ton Rulkens from Mozambique, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY The oldest evidence for the use of ...

Even after legalization, illicit cannabis grows continue to pollute California’s public lands. And the contamination, new research shows, lingers.

Thanks to an exceptionally wet December, death cap mushrooms — or Amanita phalloides — have proliferated along the Central Coast and in Northern California. As a result, there’s been a sudden uptick ...

The oldest evidence for the use of arrow poison globally was long thought to come from Egypt, dating to 4,000 years ago. It was a black, toxic residue on bone arrowheads from a tomb at the Naga ed Der ...

The yellow-rumped warbler, nicknamed "butterbutt," is the most abundant warbler in North America. Unlike most warblers that migrate to tropical climates, the hardy yellow-rumped warbler often winters ...