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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
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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King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)
9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes
earthquake. Heavily damaged school in the town of Yingxiu after a major earthquake struck China's Sichuan Province on May 12, 2008.
The 6 Deadliest Earthquakes Since 1950
Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution
The Rise of the Machines: Pros and Cons of the Industrial Revolution
In this aerial photo, structures are damaged and destroyed October 15, 2005 in Balakot, Pakistan. It is estimated that 90% of the city of Balakot was leveled by the earthquake. The death toll in the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck northern Pakistan on October 8, 2005 is believed to be 38,000 with at least 1,300 more dead in Indian Kashmir. SEE CONTENT NOTES.
6 of the World’s Deadliest Natural Disasters
African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.
Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement
Horses. Equus caballus. Horse stable. A brown horse looks out from his stall through the window.
Horsing Around: 7 of the Weirdest Racehorse Names in History
Orange basketball on black background and with low key lighting. Homepage 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society
The 10 Greatest Basketball Players of All Time

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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 life cycle of the hard tick Ixodes scapularis, a carrier of the bacterium...
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
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