Three weeks after eating just one newt, the snakes had enough tetrodotoxin in their livers to kill any bird unlucky enough to try eating them, the research found. Milkweed butterflies (Image credit: Gerard Roest / 500px) Milkweed butterflies are beautiful but deadly. These butterflies, in ...
I single out frogs because here in the U.S., we don't think about frogs as being poisonous. We're well aware of the dangers surrounding certain species of spiders, snakes, and ants. And I don't think there IS a scorpion that isn't bad news. But frogs? They're just supposed to ...
In warm climates the poinsettia grows outdoors as a winter-flowering leggyshrubabout 3 metres (10 feet) high; as a potted plant in northern areas it rarely grows beyond 1 metre. What appear to be petals are actually coloured leaflikebractsthat surround a central cluster of tiny yellow flowers...
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