It's a convenient "fun fact," but unfortunately it's not true. Opossums don't chow down on ticks in the way that social media memes and convenient, uninformed soundbites suggest. While the origin of ...

The smooth-billed ani was brought to the Galapagos Islands in the 1960s in an attempt to tackle a cattle tick problem that had caused serious losses for local farmers. The black bird was known to feed ...

During spring and summer, a hard-to-spot threat lurks in the woods: ticks. These arachnids and their bites, often discovered by unpleasant surprise, can cause harmful side effects ranging from fever, ...