Are Love Bugs the Result of an Experiment Gone Wrong?
5 May 2018How the sex-crazed March fly proliferated in the United States.
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Can You Get Chagas Disease from Kissing Bugs?
11 November 2014News from 2014 and 2017 reports that "kissing bugs" or "barber beetles" in the U.S. carry a disease-causing parasite.
Is the Pacu a Testicle-Biting Fish?
15 August 2016How the red-bellied pacu fish, a mostly vegetarian cousin of the piranha with human-like teeth, gained a reputation for biting off men's testicles.
Sea Lice Invading Florida Beaches
7 June 2016While warnings on Facebook about "sea lice" garnered skepticism, news reports have confirmed that small stinging jellyfish are present at some beaches.
Giant Catfish
Monstrously large catfish lurk supposedly underwater at the base of dams.
Killer Toilet Spider Warning
Was a man in Ireland killed by the bite of a deadly redback spider?
Sheep Sold as Poodles
Japanese pet owners were victimized by swindlers who sold them sheep and told them they were poodles?
Can Alligators Live in Sewers?
10 July 1999It's amazing what a little digging will uncover.
The Mexican Pet
Cute little doggie brought home by a tourist turns out to be a Mexican sewer rat.
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