Avoid using a tourniquet, applying ice to the bite site or giving your dog antihistamines or anti-inflammatory painkillers, ...

New research suggests Sonoran Desert toads went into steep decline after stories of their mind-bending chemical properties ...

Three teachers organized the first-ever Wicker Park Spelling Bee in the Chicago Park District park of Wicker Park at Damen Avenue and Schiller Street.

In some regions, the toad held medicinal and spiritual significance, increasing the probability that humans deliberately moved it across seas.

The Western Health Trust has accepted breaching a legal duty to meet the needs of a young adult with learning disabilities, his lawyers have announced. Judicial review proceedings brought over the ...

The amphibian and aquatic species experts from the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance and Colorado Parks and Wildlife Southeast ...

The Western Health Trust has accepted breaching a legal duty to meet the needs of a young adult with learning disabilities, his lawyers have announced .

One of these, the Western blacklegged tick, transmits the organism that causes Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi). These ticks can be found almost exclusively in Northern California.

Q. Are ticks a major concern in California? I moved here from the East Coast and everyone was concerned about Lyme disease. California is home to at least 48 species of ticks, and only 6 of these tend ...