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Stone Age humans hunted with poisoned arrows

Researchers have uncovered chemical evidence that humans in what is now South Africa were using poisoned arrows for hunting ...
Artnet News

Scientists Find World’s Oldest Poison on 60,000-Year-Old Arrowheads

Scientists have just identified the oldest traces of arrow poison on 60,000-year-old quartz arrows unearthed in South Africa.
Smithsonian Magazine

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 ...

Python swim party? Hunters observe possible new Burmese python behavior

Professional python hunters spotted something strange happening in a South Florida pond. They soon realized they might be the ...

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 ...
IFLScience

World’s Oldest Poison Arrows Were Used By Hunters 60,000 Years Ago

P rehistoric hunter-gatherers in South Africa applied deadly poisons to their stone arrows 60,000 years ago. Amazingly, the ...

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 ...
Palm Beach Post

Florida Python Cowboy makes a splash with new tactic for hunting iguanas

Mike Kimmel, known as the "Python Cowboy," leads guided hunts for invasive iguana and Burmese pythons. Invasive iguanas are a costly pest in Florida, damaging landscaping and burrowing into flood ...