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, ...

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 ...