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brown dog tick American dog tick black-legged tick Life cycle of the tick Ixodes scapularis
Learn how scientists are targeting the glands required for tick digestion to prevent the spread of disease
cattle tick tick Rocky Mountain wood tick
Quizzes
Sea otter (Enhydra lutris), also called great sea otter, rare, completely marine otter of the northern Pacific, usually found in kelp beds. Floats on back. Looks like sea otter laughing. saltwater otters
Animal Group Names
Lion (panthera leo)
Deadliest Animals Quiz
Mute swan with cygnet. (birds)
Match the Baby Animal to Its Mama Quiz
Green tree python snake (Chondropython viridis) in a rainforest.
Creepy Crawlers Quiz
vulture. An adult bearded vulture at a raptor recovery center. The Gypaetus barbatus also known as the Lammergeier or Lammergeyer, is a bird of prey and considered an Old World vulture.
Animal Factoids
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Illustration for Demystified "How Dangerous is Quicksand"
How Deadly Is Quicksand?
Groups of depositors in front of the closed American Union Bank, New York City. April 26, 1932. Great Depression run on bank crowd
Causes of the Great Depression
Easter Procession of Maria Santisima del Sacromonte in Granada, Spain. This statue is known as Virgen de los Gitanos or The Virgin of the Gypsies.
What is Holy Week?
King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)
9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes
New Zealand. Political/Physical map. Includes locator.
Where Is “Old Zealand”?
Titanic infographic. The 30th anniversary of its discovery is September 1, 2015. SPOTLIGHT VERSION.
Timeline of the Titanic’s Final Hours
Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)
Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture

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brown dog tick
Brown dog tick (Rhipicephalus sanguineus).
James Gathany and William Nicholson/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (Image ID: 7646)
American dog tick
American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis).
© Paul Lemke/Dreamstime.com
black-legged tick
Black-legged, or deer, tick (Ixodes scapularis).
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Life cycle of the tick Ixodes scapularis
The hard tick Ixodes scapularis is a carrier of the bacterium that causes...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
cattle tick
Cattle tick (Boophilus).
E.R. Degginger/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
tick
Environmental scanning electron microscope image of a tick. Clearly visible is the...
© Sarah Swanson
Rocky Mountain wood tick
Dorsal view of a female Rocky Mountain wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni),...
James Gathany—Dr. Christopher Paddock/CDC
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