For thousands of years, traditional Chinese medicine has used venomous centipedes to treat kidney disease, epilepsy, and many other disorders.

A horrifying-looking, 8-inch-long venomous centipede could help to save the lives of people with kidney disease. The Chinese red-headed centipede ( Scolopendra subspinipes mutilans) contains special ...

It is "the first known case of active wound treatment in a wild animal with a medical plant," biologist Isabelle Laumer told ...

A male orangutan was spotted chewing up antibacterial and pain-relieving plants and applying the paste to a wound on his ...

Pyrrolizidine alkaloids are as bitter and toxic as they are hard to pronounce. They're produced by several different types of ...

A venomous, 8-inch centipede may be the stuff of nightmares, but it could save the life of those affected by kidney disease.

In California, where the herbal substance kratom has become a common fixture in vape-and-smoke shops, lawmakers are now ...

According to a recent study, the bella moth ( Utetheisa ornatrix) has reportedly evolved to use the toxins of a particular ...

“Analyses of plant chemical compounds show the presence of furanoditerpenoids and protoberberine alkaloids, which are known ...

Researchers describe a natural product-like molecule, Tantalosin, that inhibits interaction between two proteins in complexes that reshape membranes inside the cell. The findings lead to a deeper ...

Analyses of plant chemical compounds show the presence of furanoditerpenoids and protoberberine alkaloids, which are known to have antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti-fungal, antioxidant, and other ...

If you eat even small amounts of the plant as an adult you could die a very painful death. Personally, I want to spare you ...