“The problem is that members of the carrot family all look fairly similar. Wild carrot and wild parsnip look quite similar to ...

Some harmless plants are mistaken for poison ivy (young box elder seedlings, for instance) but you’ll know for sure if you develop an itchy rash after coming in contact with the sap, which contains ...

Five people in South-East Queensland were hospitalized after consuming brodifacoum, a potent rat poison, believed to be from a fast-food outlet. This anticoagulant disrupts blood clotting, leading to ...

Pete Aitken says his daughter Hannah would still be alive if she hadn't been sent to a series of "failing" mental health hospitals, which made her increasingly unwell. Hannah Aitken was 22 when she ...

A "pyschopath" woman has confessed to poisoning 10 dogs as she tweaked the levels of the substance she intended to use for a murder rampage. A 65-year-old man died after eating a "toxic bean stew", ...

Our pets are just like our family members, and so most people often end up offering them the food that they are eating too-- as a form of love. However, did you know that certain everyday foods in our ...

The mandrake is a perennial herb in the nightshade family (Solanaceae) with a large taproot, often forked, that has been associated with human-shaped roots and magical folklore.

The pellets, known as nurdles or bio-beads, have washed up in enormous numbers on Camber Sands beach in East Sussex.

Strange fruits that may have sailed ocean currents for years are washing up along Texas shores this week. The softball-sized, cube-like and spongy lime green or brown objects known as “box fruit” can ...

Weekend temperatures could break records before a slight cooldown later in the week. Paul has the forecast. Billionaire Bill Gates is making a $300 million bet in the fight against Alzheimer’s as ...

Patients presented themselves to Logan and Princess Alexandra hospitals after they consumed the suspected poisonous meals. Chief Health Officer Dr Catherine McDougall advised staff in an internal ...