Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Boophone disticha. Ton Rulkens from Mozambique, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY The oldest evidence for the use of ...
Archaeologists working in South Africa have discovered traces of plant toxins on the tips of 60,000-year-old arrows, marking the earliest known evidence of humans integrating poison into their hunting ...
Stone artefacts from a rock shelter in South Africa have yielded chemical traces of toxic plant compounds, offering what researchers describe as the earliest direct evidence of poisoned hunting ...