Freshwater snails might seem harmless ... Pufferfish are known for their ability to inflate as a defense mechanism, but their real danger lies in their poison. They contain tetrodotoxin, a substance ...

Read more: 10 Types Of Freshwater Fish, Ranked By Danger Level ... too fragile to break through thick and solid soles. Cone snails — part of the Conidae family — are quite beautiful marine ...

Mississippi’s official state drink is…milk. That’s it. Just milk. Springfield, Missouri, has massive underground caves ...

While many animals pose little threat to humans, a few are responsible for a significant number of fatalities annually. Here ...

The person who found a blue dragon sea slug — whose sting can cause nausea, vomiting, and an allergic skin reaction — and ...

Ozempic was derived from Gila monsters, a lizard native to the southwestern US; Prialt, used to treat chronic pain in HIV and cancer patients, comes from deadly cone snails; and captopril ...

An Arkansas tree cutter who made jars of the lethal poison ricin on his rural property was sentenced to eight years in prison for possessing a biological agent infamously known for being one of ...

For plants in the ground, we found the biological control Nemaslug is effective against slugs but not snails. There is one chemical option: pellets containing ferric phosphate. Ferric phosphate-based ...

Of all the bugs New Zealanders could have selected to win an international competition, they chose neither the prettiest, nor the most useful. The NZ velvet worm won this year’s New Zealand Bug ...

Feb. 17, 2025 — In a surprising discovery, scientists have found that the heart possesses 'sweet taste' receptors, similar to those on our tongues, and that stimulating these receptors with ...

Bethany Brookshire was the staff writer at Science News for Students from 2013 to 2021. She has a B.S. in biology and a B.A. in philosophy from The College of William and Mary, and a Ph.D. in ...