Poison
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Where Endangered Vultures Go for a Healthy, Rotting Meal
A young, captive Cape vultureChelsea Biondolillo Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . The sun is hot and high over Hartbeetspoort, South Africa, the air thick with humidity and flies. On the dirt in front of us are the remains of three cows. Bridgette Cahill asks, “Ready to get […] -
The Pufferfish’s Lethal Poison Shows Up Right Under Our Feet
A flatworm that lives in soil and uses TTX to hunt down much larger earthwormsPeter Ducey Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Lurking in the soil, even under a most peaceful and well-nurtured garden, is a surprisingly fierce predator: Bipalium adventitium, an invasive flatworm that began appearing in the […] -
What’s Worse: Unwanted Mutations or Unwanted Humans?
Three of the rare Przewalski’s horses that now roam the area near the Chernobyl nuclear plant.Sergey Gaschak Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . After a fatal series of errors and malfunctions in the early morning of April 26, 1986, the core of the Chernobyl nuclear facility melted down and […]