Whether you’re looking to tour a historic garden, learn some gardening skills or explore local flora and fauna, you’ll find ...

If Socrates were alive today, he would do well to consume only food and drink which he himself prepared, as the plant which was used to kill him is alive and well throughout the contiguous United ...

A roadside plant is posing a potentially deadly risk to Americans after it was found to be growing rapidly in unmanaged areas. Poison hemlock, also known as Conium maculatum, is poisonous to humans ...

While flocking is largely considered nontoxic to pets, animals who ingest large amounts of flocking may experience intestinal obstructions, which can be fatal without appropriate treatment. For years, ...

The second season of Percy Jackson and the Olympians jumps straight into one of the story’s biggest betrayals. Right in the premiere, Luke Castellan is shown poisoning Thalia’s Tree, instantly ...

A decades-old mix-up in a museum collection led scientists to mistakenly identify a Peruvian poison frog as a new species.

A potentially lethal plant root has been found on beaches, prompting a warning from the coastguard. Millom Coastguard said hemlock water dropwort roots, also known as "dead man's fingers", had washed ...

California authorities are warning people not to eat foraged mushrooms for the time being after nearly two dozen people were sickened — including one fatally — by a highly poisonous mushroom known as ...

Two officers were out on patrol in Altoona, Pennsylvania, last December when they were told to check out a report that the man who’d just shot a health insurance executive on a Manhattan street was ...

Finally, the last of our numbered months has arrived. December was the tenth month in the old Latin calendar. Decem meaning ...