Flying through the jungles of Papau New Guinea, two brightly colored bird species carried a secret. More accurate, the birds carried a poison — a toxin emanating from their feathers and seeping from ...

In the summer of 1989, Jack Dumbacher was a fresh-faced ornithologist-in-training on his maiden expedition to the lush rainforests of Papua New Guinea. One sticky afternoon, he noticed an unusual bird ...

New Guinea - Researchers recently discovered two new species of poisonous birds during an expedition into the jungles of New Guinea. According to the University of Copenhagen, Knud Jønsson and his ...

While most of us are aware that poisonous animals exist, we assume we know where to look for them. Me personally, I am always looking for them on the ground. After all, that is where you will often ...

The poisonous birds inhabit one of Earth’s most pristine rainforests, a place as exotic as no other in the world. Hearing the words poisonous and bird coupled will be an eye-opener for most. But ...

Birds are usually linked with freedom, beauty, and calm. They sit on trees, sing in the morning, and feel safe to be around. But scientific findings have quietly changed that long-held idea. In a ...

When we talk about poisonous animals, birds rarely make the list. Snakes? Absolutely. Frogs? Sure. But birds? Most of us see them as peaceful, graceful creatures– the kind that fly away at the first ...

One of the newly-discovered poisonous bird species, the rufous-naped bellbird or Aleadryas rufinucha. Photo from the University of Copenhagen Flying through the jungles of Papau New Guinea, two ...