This is the oldest confirmed use of a mixture comprising two or more plant toxins specifically applied to arrowheads.

Two children from a village in Zebediela, Limpopo, died after eating the leaves of the poisonous Yellow Oleander plant. South ...

African violets are non-toxic houseplants that are safe to keep in your home when cats are present. They may sometimes chew on the plant if they are bored or inquisitive, but it is doubtful that ...

In Kenya and across Africa, poison is used to kill small creatures ... and any employee of a flower farm can divert a new insecticide to the local black market. Even cement has been used to ...

Excavating a cave in South Africa in 1983, they had discovered an unusual femur bone. It belonged to an unspecified antelope and was found to be 7,000 years old. X-rays revealed that three modified ...

Researchers find the oldest multi-component hunting poison on arrowheads inside a 7,000-year-old antelope bone.

None of the plant species that contain digitoxin ... The earliest molecular evidence for poison in southern Africa comes from a 24,000-year-old wooden spatula at Border Cave in the Lebombo ...