For nearly two centuries, a small brown frog living in Southeast Asian rainforests was considered a single, well-understood ...

Officials in Florida say an injured mother manatee and her calf have been rescued from a river and taken to SeaWorld Orlando ...

Precise, deniable and, in Russia’s case, grimly familiar. Poison has become less a medieval cliché than a geopolitical signature flourish in recent years. Accusations of Russian poisoning surfaced ...

Epibatidine, which can be secreted by Anthony's poison arrow frog onto its skin, was blamed for Alexei Navalny's death by five European nations Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was killed ...

The Russian state has long been accused of using exotic poisons to murder its opponents - whether the nerve agent Novichok or radioactive plutonium isotopes. Could Alexei Navalny have been killed by ...

A joint report alleging that a poison dart frog toxin has been linked to the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny rippled quickly around the globe among scientists. The allegations raised ...

Have you ever looked in the toilet after going number two and noticed a banana- or sausage-shaped poop? If your answer is yes, you’re likely doing something right. Doctors say folks should aim for ...

Climate change may be giving frogs a helping hand in the language of love, a new study has found. Researchers from University of California, Davis, have discovered that temperature plays a key role in ...

Scientists once thought that a male frog dubbed Romeo was the last of his kind. Then, when more Sehuencas water frogs were discovered in 2018, they hoped he would mate with a female they called Juliet ...

Stool transplants are cutting-edge experimental procedures, but using poop as medicine is hardly a modern idea. Ancient Romans knew their… feces – or at least they liked to think they did. According ...

Researchers in Turkey say they have unearthed archaeological evidence that the Romans used human feces in medical treatments. Although Roman texts described the practice, this is the first time that ...