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Can You Get Chagas Disease from Kissing Bugs?

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

Is the Pacu a Testicle-Biting Fish?

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

Sea Lice Invading Florida Beaches

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

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...

Can Alligators Live in Sewers?

It'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...

Are Love Bugs the Result of an Experiment Gone Wrong?

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