Garden snails and aphids are venomous animals. This is the startling outcome of a new study that argues for a radical shift ...

Pick your poison. Poisonous species only deploy their toxins defensively, to avoid being eaten by predators, says David Nelsen, a biologist at Southern Adventist University in Tennessee.This is ...

Knowing this, they hope to better understand, detect and predict when a bloom might occur, or even trace the algae to a ...

Researchers studying harmful algal blooms in the St. Louis River Estuary that separates Minnesota and Wisconsin have made a breakthrough discovery: for the first time, they've linked a known ...

US officials have confirmed that the toxin linked to the deaths of more than 40 horses was found in horse feed. H&H reported in December that feed had been blamed for the death of 45 horses in the ...

Wheat -- the most widely cultivated crop in the world -- is under growing attack from harmful toxins. Across Europe, almost half of wheat crops are impacted by the fungal infection that gives rise ...

The fungus, known as head blight, affects grains used to make bread, cereal and livestock feed, officials say.

"Vulture bees" feed their larvae rotting meat instead of relying on pollen like other bees.. Scientists hung raw chicken in Costa Rica and watched vulture bees fill their leg pouches and stomachs with ...