Plant Board defers decision on warfarin use in feral hog bait

The state Plant Board on Wednesday deferred a decision on a proposal to establish a new classification for pesticides ...
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Ancient hunters used plant poison on these stone arrows 60,000 years ago

Stone age humans were using poison for hunting far longer than previously believed. In A Nutshell Chemical traces survived ...
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Hunting with poison arrows may have begun 60,000 years ago in Africa

A collection of arrow points excavated in South Africa has provided the oldest direct evidence of hunters deploying ...

World’s Oldest Arrow Poison Discovered on 60,000-Year-Old Stone Age Weapons

Traces of plant poison on ancient African arrowheads provide the oldest direct evidence of poisoned weapons. Scientists have ...

The Poison-Arrow Technology of Our Hunter-Gatherer Ancestors

The study authors conclude that these Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers were making their poison from the gifbol root bulb ...
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Archaeologists Just Discovered the Oldest Known Evidence of Poison Arrows, Which Hunters Used to Slow Down Their Prey 60,000 Years Ago

New research reveals traces of plant toxins on arrow tips in South Africa, suggesting that the technique was used tens of ...
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60,000-year-old poison arrows from South Africa are the oldest poison weapons ever discovered

Five quartz arrowheads found in a South African cave were laced with a slow-acting tumbleweed poison that would have tired ...

Oldest known poison arrows were used to hunt animals 60,000 years ago

Stone Age arrowheads found in South Africa showcase the knowledge and strategy of prehistoric hunter-gatherers, according to ...

60,000-year-old traces of world's oldest arrow poison reveal early advanced hunting techniques

Researchers from South Africa and Sweden have found the oldest traces of arrow poison in the world to date. On ...

These 60,000-year-old poison arrows are oldest yet found

Archaeologists have now found traces of a plant-based poison on several 60,000-year-old quartz Stone Age arrowheads found in ...

Arrow tips found in South Africa are the oldest evidence of poison use in hunting

The discovery that small stone arrow tips were treated with plant poison 60,000 years ago means that ancient African hunters ...

World's oldest poisoned arrowheads were coated with toxins from deadly onion-like plant, researchers say

The world's oldest poisoned arrows, dating back 60,000 years in South Africa, have been identified by archaeologists. The ...