Lethal Lurkers

Is the Pacu a Testicle-Biting Fish?

• 15 August 2016

How the red-bellied pacu fish, a mostly vegetarian cousin of the piranha with human-like teeth,...

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Is the Pacu a Testicle-Biting Fish?

Sea Lice Invading Florida Beaches

• 7 June 2016

While warnings on Facebook about "sea lice" garnered skepticism, news reports have confirmed that small...

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Sea Lice Invading Florida Beaches

Giant Catfish Monstrously large catfish lurk supposedly underwater at the base of dams.

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Giant Catfish

Killer Toilet Spider Warning Was a man in Ireland killed by the bite of a deadly redback spider?

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Killer Toilet Spider Warning

Can You Get Chagas Disease from Kissing Bugs?

• 11 November 2014

News from 2014 and 2017 reports that "kissing bugs" or "barber beetles" in the U.S....

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Can You Get Chagas Disease from Kissing Bugs?

Sheep Sold as Poodles Japanese pet owners were victimized by swindlers who sold them sheep and told them they...

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Sheep Sold as Poodles

The Mexican Pet Cute little doggie brought home by a tourist turns out to be a Mexican sewer...

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The Mexican Pet

Are Love Bugs the Result of an Experiment Gone Wrong?

• 29 July 2002

How the sex-crazed March fly proliferated in the United States.

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Are Love Bugs the Result of an Experiment Gone Wrong?

Can Alligators Live in Sewers?

• 10 July 1999

It's amazing what a little digging will uncover.

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Can Alligators Live in Sewers?