Did you know that there are a group of frogs in South America known as 'poison-dart frogs'? There are different types of frogs within the group but most of them are brightly coloured and have black spots. They are dangerous to touch because they have poison on their skin. Native people in the area used to rub the poison onto their arrows before hunting.
Professor Gail Anderson of Simon Fraser University
has been named on of the five leading innovators in the field of
criminal justice by Time Magazine. Prof. Anderson is a forensic
entomologist and a criminologist, and she uses insects to tell the
time of death in a homicide. By researching the patterns and stages
in which insects colonize a body after death, she can determine
when death occurred, sometimes to the hour! MARCH 13, 2001
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