Identifying the makeup of toxic chemicals in the field can be a tricky process rife with false alarms. But sending samples to a lab for more thorough analysis typically provides unambiguous answers to warfare allegations.
Identifying the makeup of toxic chemicals in the field can be a tricky process rife with false alarms. But sending samples to a lab for more thorough analysis typically provides unambiguous answers to warfare allegations.
Identifying the makeup of toxic chemicals in the field can be a tricky process rife with false alarms. But sending samples to a lab for more thorough analysis typically provides unambiguous answers to warfare allegations.
Scientists are unsure of the source of this frog's amazing toxicity, but it is possible they assimilate plant poisons, which are carried by their prey.
The Dumbo octopus is quite the spectacle -- looking like a gelatinous ghost with two floppy ‘lil ear-thingies' on top. Mind it doesn't squirt you though, as its ink is toxic.
Instead of blending into the background, the animal impersonator often uses a daredevil strategy of making itself more conspicuous to predators, passing itself off as a toxic fish or sea snake.
Poisonous alkaloids in blue dart frogs' skin are absorbed from ants they eat in the wild. In captivity, the frogs eat mainly crickets and fruit flies and actually lose their toxicity.
Poisonous alkaloids in blue dart frogs' skin are absorbed from ants they eat in the wild. In captivity, the frogs eat mainly crickets and fruit flies and actually lose their toxicity.
Poisonous alkaloids in blue dart frogs' skin are absorbed from ants they eat in the wild. In captivity, the frogs eat mainly crickets and fruit flies and actually lose their toxicity.
Hundreds have taken ill in China after eating pork products tainted by clenbuterol, a fiasco that is reminiscent of when toxic milk powder sickened thousands in 2008.
Hundreds have taken ill in China after eating pork products tainted by clenbuterol, a fiasco that is reminiscent of when toxic milk powder sickened thousands in 2008.
A state of emergency has been declared in Hungary, where 600,000 - 700,000 cubic meters of toxic sludge has escaped from a reservoir at an alumina plant.