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The Golden Poison Frog: also known as golden dart frog or golden poison arrow frog is a poison dart frog endemic to the rainforests of Colombia in South America. Despite its small size, this frog is among the most poisonous animals on the planet.

Golden poison frogs are so toxic that adult frogs likely have few - if any- predators. There is only a single species of snake that has shown resistance to several frog toxins and has been observed to eat juvenile frogs without ill effects.

The golden poison frogs produce deadly alkaloid 'batrachotoxins' in their skin glands as a defense against predators. The toxin affects the sodium channels of nerve cells which can lead to paralysis, heart failure, and death.

An average wild golden poison frog is generally estimated to contain about one milligram of poison, enough to kill between 10 and 20 humans, or up to two African bull elephants.

Golden poison frogs have always been important to the indigenous cultures who used the poison in the darts to hunt their food. The tips of arrows and darts are soaked in the fluid and remain deadly for two years or longer.

However, owing to the destruction of their habitat, this beautiful creature is on the verge of extinction.

The Harvester Vase: a Late Bronze Age stone vase (rhyton) found at Hagia Triada, an ancient palace of the Minoan civilization in Crete (largest Greek islands) dating to about 1550 to 1500 BC.

The vase is made in the form of an Ostrich egg and would have been used for ritual drinking or libation (a ritual pouring of a liquid, or grains such as rice, as an offering to a deity or spirit, or in memory of the dead).