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Dog owners are picking ticks already this season as vets urge precaution • May 10, 2025, 4:56 AM ET (CBC)
Pheasants linked to higher risk of Lyme disease bacteria in ticks • Apr. 21, 2025, 5:27 AM ET (News-Medical)

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Also Known As Metastigmata • Ixodida

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brown dog tick
American dog tick
black-legged tick
Life cycle of the tick Ixodes scapularis
cattle tick
tick
Rocky Mountain wood tick
Learn how scientists are targeting the glands required for tick digestion to prevent the spread of disease
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Smith, Theobald
Theobald Smith
American pathologist
Howard T. Ricketts
American pathologist

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Green tree python snake (Chondropython viridis) in a rainforest.
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Lion (panthera leo)
Deadliest Animals Quiz
Lion (panthera leo)
Deadliest Animals Quiz
Mute swan with cygnet. (birds)
Match the Baby Animal to Its Mama 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
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
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