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Jerusalem crickets are large, flightless insects in the genera Ammopelmatus and Stenopelmatus, native to the Americas. They have a distinctive drumming song, a foul smell and a painful bite, and are sometimes called potato bugs or skull insects.
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Learn about the three Inca child mummies discovered in 1999 near the summit of Llullaillaco, a stratovolcano on the Argentina-Chile border. They were sacrificed around 1500 in a religious ritual and are among the best-preserved mummies in the world.
Learn the meaning and origin of the Latin phrase "sola dosis facit venenum" (only the dose makes the poison) in toxicology. Find out how dose, exposure, and toxicity are related and how they affect public health standards.
Datura stramonium, also known as thornapple, jimsonweed, or devil's trumpet, is a poisonous plant in the nightshade family. It has white to violet, trumpet-shaped flowers that emit a pleasant fragrance at night and contain tropane alkaloids that can cause hallucinations or delirium.
The poison center experts had an idea: Although the product the patient ordered on Amazon was labeled as Nuez de la India, it might instead have contained a poisonous plant called yellow oleander.
La Voisin was a midwife and alchemist who sold poison and aphrodisiacs to the aristocracy, including Louis XIV's mistress, Madame de Montespan. She was tortured and burned at the stake in 1680, along with 34 other people accused of witchcraft and murder.
Stolen Children (Spanish: Niños robados) is a two-part Spanish television miniseries inspired by historical deeds that re-creates the history of two youngsters who they are forced to confront their pregnancy alone in the francoist period of the Spain of 1970.