By 1992, scientists had confirmed that pitohui birds contain batrachotoxin, one of the most lethal natural poisons—far more ...

Read also Depositphotos_4109024_L Local inhabitants had long been aware of the bird’s toxicity and warned against consuming them without thorough preparation. In 1992, it was ...

The variable pitohui, a poisonous bird, captured in a mist net on the outskirts of Wanang Village in Papua New Guinea in 2018. In the summer of 1989, Jack Dumbacher was a fresh-faced ornithologist ...

Tiny, feathered, and fatally toxic, these birds prove danger can come in beautiful packages.When we think of poison in the ...

Researchers described biofluorescence in 37 of the 45 known species of birds-of-paradise, found only in remote tropical forests and woodland habitats of Papua New Guinea, eastern Indonesia and ...

Found in the forests of Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and Eastern Australia, birds of paradise are famous for flashy feathers and unusually shaped ornaments, which set the standard for haute ...

“A sunset tinge” is how Papua New Guinea ethnobiologist Challis Pulotu describes the red on a live, “really beautiful” raggiana bird of paradise (Paradisaea raggiana) he once had a chance ...

The chicken-size bird was found in a remote region of Papua New Guinea in 2022 after not having been documented in 126 years. Though the existence of a bird may not have been documented by science ...